Patrick J. Timlick wrote: > I've been burned by major rev upgrades, so I never even attempt them > anymore.
I've had similar experiences the two or three times I've upgraded to a new version/distribution. I wonder if virtualization can help. I'm starting to think about upgrading my hardware before I really need to (this time!) and I'd appreciate hearing the collected wisdom on the subject, and if what I perceive from past discussions is how it really can work. What I imagine: 1. Buy a quiet box and put a motherboard and processor in it that fully support virtualization. 2. Install a distribution that does little but support the virtual installations that follow. 3. Install the distribution I want for day-to-day use, and transfer all the stuff I have on this machine to it. 4. Install other distributions to try out, especially another copy of the one installed in step 3 to try out distribution upgrades before applying them to the day-to-day distribution. Does this sound like it will work? Are there some gotchas the collected wisdom knows about? I'm I correct in assuming that I can make each one of these installations look like a different machine on my home network and move files between them as desired? -- Regards, Dick Steffens www.dicksteffens.com _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
