On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Sherm Pendley wrote:
Really though, you should be wiping the drive and doing a "clean" install of the newer OS anyway. That's what most folks recommend as the safest way to upgrade. You'll need to spend some additional time re-installing Perl modules, the apps you use, etc., but it's time well spent.
I don't get this advice -- I've never had a problem in just doing the plain old upgrade installs.
It can't hurt (much) to wipe everything out, I guess, but it seems so close to the painful "Windows needs to be reformatted every 3 months" chestnut -- there may be an element of truth in there, but if the system has been maintained well, that's really overkill.
*shrug*
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