On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 18:39:44 Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Thursday 2008-10-02 at 10:02 +0200, Verner Kjærsgaard wrote:
Generally, a "clean new install" is (in my optics) preferable to any upgrade. It's easy to keep most settings, bookmarks and all if the existing install has a separate /home partition.
Not true if you have a number of system configurations: postfix, amavis, mysql, apache... I find an upgrade preferable.
Personally, I would be backing up /etc, /home and perhaps /usr/share (some apps keep config files under that path). Format and do a clean reinstall, then restore app-specific configs from the previous version. I wouldn't blindly copy /home back - just the data files. Some of the config files are likely to have changed between 9.x and 11.x so it is safer (IMHO) to allow 11.0 to recreate all the user-specific configs (all the dot directories). That is just my preference. I did this recently from 10.3 to 11.0 on my work laptop with zero major problems and just a couple of minor glitches that were easily resolved (so minor that I can't even remember specifically what they were). Hope this helps. -- =================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au ===================================================