On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Stefan Monnier <[email protected]>wrote:
> > I'll second his opinion. > > I may agree with his opinion as well, actually (I'm quite aware that > doing continous micro-upgrades as I do with Debian testing, is > completely different from upgrading only once a year or so), but not > with what he wrote: > > >>> IMO it is always better to do a clean install, and even to wipe your > >>> home dir. > > The "always" is clearly wrong, even more so with the "home dir" part: > that means having to reinstall your personal preferences at every > upgrade. At that cost, I'd rather upgrade once per decade only. > > > Stefan > _______________________________________________ > mlug mailing list > [email protected] > https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca > In installing from CD, got most of things right. First of all, I have to solve a GRUB problem. The new Grub recognizes UBUNTU, but not MEMTEST or Fedora. I noted, when comparing hard disk id's that it did not calculate the partition numbers correctly gtparm shows boot as hd(1,3) and Grub said it was hd(1,5). In any case, neither value works Message I am getting is that the kernel is not being loaded. -- ------------------- Regards Leslie Satenstein
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