On Monday 12 November 2001 20:17, you wrote: > Ugh. I never upgrade anymore. The process is excrutiatingly slow. It is > much faster to just install anew (leaving your /home and, perhaps, > /usr/local alone - on their own partitions). I never really lose anything > doing it this way and save a ton of time and pain. > > It also gives you the simple, convenient time to repartition your system. > I usually find that after using the system for a while, my partitioning > scheme could use some improvement and tinkering so by reinstalling I am > easily able to do so then. Leave /usr/local and naturally, /home, in their > own partitions so that upon installing (instead of upgrading) the next > major version you choose) you can do so without losing personal or addon > stuff like personal docs, games, etc. > > That isn't what you were asking but there it is...installing new instead of > upgrading is the most pain-free, quickest, and least problematic way to go. > > praedor >
I can only add that 'upgrade' is a very quick way to repair an existing installation which has been botched up badly. After checking the packages (of which none require upgrading of course) you can go through the rest of the routine :) It's not the way it should be, but it's faster than repairing all sorts of things You've never heard about. Especially if the box just has to work real pronto! Harm
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