* Bruce Marshall <bmarsh@bmarsh.com> [11-17-04 13:00]:
What you want to do is what I do for every install....
1) Leave *all* of the old partitions intact. 2) Make new partitions for the new release. 3) Install fresh. 4) Do a manual configuration of 'lots of little things' (and take good notes for next time)
The advantages are many:
1) You learn a lot. 2) You find out what new features are (but looking at the config files) 3) You clean out a lot of old garbage, unused apps, etc. 4) You get to resize and re-org as needed.
I find it takes about a half a day to reconfig my main machine, and there is a lot to do... postfix, a Moxa serial card, fetchmail, procmail, mysql, etc....
But doing it fresh is waaaay worth it for me.
FWIW, I agree completely. I have used this method ever since I left marmaDuked for SuSE 7.0. and make sure that you keep the old ver bootable, as you may want to return once or twice or sometime later. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/photos