On Sun April 17 2005 1:06 pm, Scott Leighton wrote:
Right, your points are all valid and I do keep /home on a separate partition and did backup the entire system before upgrading. It really boils down to the two choices full of trade offs;
just curious, when you say backup entire system, what do you mean, and what did you use?
2) Install fresh... deal with reconfiguring and retweaking all of your settings in the various /etc config files (assuming you retain a separate /home partition and restore your /usr/local stuff.
usr/local ?? help me out here, I have been backing up /etc and /home, what do I need from /usr/local ? ?
Either way seems more painful to me than it should be. I really hate to use Windows as an example, but OS upgrades in Windows did not break a bunch of stuff on me like the Linux upgrades seem to do.
um, well... I beg to differ... XP SP1 broke a bunch of stuff on my setup. I've had to back out a few others in my time, but lets not talk M$ today :) -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 X-Request-PGP: http://home.comcast.net/~p.cartwright/wsb/key.asc