> From: Gordon Rowell, Wednesday, January 31, 2001 9:55 AM > My personal preference (not speaking in e-smith context here) > is to do fresh > OS installs whenever I do an "upgrade". It is a good > opportunity to remove > the unwanted clutter. I agree with Gordon. Often our work involves taking over a client/project/server where a long legacy of install/upgrades have gone before. Things are typically a mess and sometimes it is not even readily apparent. A fresh install gives us the opportunity to do it right. It is so quick to set-up an e-smith server, in an hour you can just about have a ready-to-role, username populated, data transferred, fresh server install completed. I even see the potential of using an e-smith server as a quick disaster recovery model for Novell/NT server failures. Again, in less then an hour you can grab any office workstation, set it up as an e-smith server to keep an office running whilst you undertake the possible time consuming rebuild of a Novell/NT server. Darrell
