On Tuesday 03 June 2003 09:45 am, Praedor Atrebates wrote: > On Tuesday 03 June 2003 10:13 am, Brian V Bonini wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 13:59, charlie wrote: > > > On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 04:39 pm, Brian V Bonini sent this :- > > > > > > > About to attempt an upgrade from 9.0 to 9.1 > > > > > > > > Any issues I should be aware of, any suggestions, experiences > > > > (good or bad).... > > > > > > Clean install, don't upgrade. If your home is on another > > > partition it will all just come together like a dream, and most > > > things will be setup the way you left them anyway. > > > > /home is on it's own partition.. > > And then just re-install whatever additional software I've added to > > the system?? That could work, a little more work then I was hoping > > for but if it will increase my chances of success... > > From this point forward, ALWAYS create a separate partition for > /usr/local/. This way, a lot of your software wont get trashed nor > need reinstalling if/when you upgrade. Go ahead and wipe /, /usr, > etc, but leave /usr/local alone (this, of course, applies to /home > too). You will need to manually enter /usr/local during setup during > install when you are setting up partitions as it is not one of the > selectable choices in the drop-down menu. Just type in "/usr/local" > and go from there. I always do this and don't regret it. I have > specialty software and games added that I don't want to have to > reinstall so I leave them alone in /usr/local.
Actually, making a backup of /etc is a good idea also. I always copy it to /home prior to reinstalling. It helps when restoring host files, samba config, crontab entries, etc. And if you have any user crontabs, you will want to backup /var/spool/cron as well. The backups can be deleted once reconfiguration is complete. > > As others have mentioned, but I will emphasize, do NOT do an upgrade, > do a clean, full install. An upgrade ALWAYS takes forever and > invariably leads to problems and more problems. Skip the problems > and get up and running faster by doing an new install (every time you > upgrade). > > praedor -- Thomas K. Gamble Los Alamos National Laboratory Advanced Diagnostics & Instrumentation (C-ADI) p:505-665-4323 f:505-665-4267 MS-E543
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