On Tuesday 29 April 2008 16:32, you wrote:

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One thing I've been doing for years now is always using a new drive or new partition for every major SuSE Linux / openSUSE upgrade I do. That way I don't burn any bridges. It's costly, but much safer. On one of my boxes, I've still got the pared down, remnant root partitions of a 9.2 and a 9.3 release—the system now running is SuSE Linux 10.0.

I don't quite understand the reason for a "New" Drive, I just clear the old partitions with any number of tools so it's a clean disk and then install, unless the drive has some miles on it, then as a preventative measure I will put in a new one.

The reason? So I can boot the previous system while working on the new installation and if anything goes seriously wrong with the new installation (say, you have very new hardware whose support has not been fully shaken out), you can still revert to your previous working installation. "Duff Man is a cautious cat!" — Joe / Sid / Barry Duffman a.k.a. Duff Man Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org