On Thu, 4 Nov 2010, Matt McKenzie wrote: > One of the best ways to go, is to keep a separate partition for /home, > this way when you do a clean install of the newer version, all your user > data remains intact. Plus, you can backup your important /etc config > files to a subdirectory in /home (like /home/[user]/backup for instance), > and compare those with the new ones after the install.
This assumes that you do not install any applications in /usr/ other than what comes on the distribution disks. For many of us, that's not the case. If I get two versions behind on Slackware, I upgrade one version at a time. And I make sure that everything is working properly on the first upgrade before proceeding to the second one. With few exceptions, this has worked for me. And, I'm normally no more than one version behind. Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
