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On Tuesday 04 January 2011 15:25:08 S C Rigler wrote:

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> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 7:17 AM, Peder Hedlund  wrot=

e:

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> > And a tip once you upgrade lanas: buy a new harddrive and do a fresh

> > install.

> > You can even keep the old one and set up the bootloader to dual-boot yo=

ur

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> > old system if you feel like you need to experiment with the new system

> > first.

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> > I second this, especially when upgrading from something as old Fedora 8.

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> IIRC, the upgrade process takes significantly longer than a fresh install

> would and the chances of catastrophic failure are pretty high (as in

> "certain").

While I do encounter the odd failure in updates every now and then, the num=

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of catastrophic failures (possibly resulting in data-loss) has been zero wi=

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SuSE, Gentoo and ubuntu (*). The hours spent getting watching one system to=

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upgrade while working with another where much better used then the hours sp=

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setting up a new system with all the small quirks and settings to re-create=

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needed working environment.
My advice: If there is a supported upgrade-path for your distribution, use =

it.
Have fun,
Arnold
(*) My only data-loss was from gentoo to ubuntu where I tried to be smarter=

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then some system-tools, messed around with the partition-table and fucked u=

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big time. Thanks to backups and version-control-systems only un-important m=

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was lost. And some time after I deleted direct copies of the disk-space=20

concerned I learned about testdisk which would have helped in that case too=

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