Trane Francks wrote: > On 11/12/13 8:10 AM +0900, goodwin wrote: >> On 11/11/2013 09:54 AM, HilsB wrote: >> >>> HilsB wrote: >>>> Yes it does - if anything a little faster. >>>> A few bits of advice - 1) backup everything 2)Close down all >>>> programmes 3) allow a few hours. >>>> >> >> academic question only - what does allowing a few hours do and where >> does it do it? >> >> not a mac user nor SM... >> > Backing up your system and then doing an in-place upgrade will take "a > few hours", same as with Windows or Linux. That is, if Linux has evolved > enough to actually do in-place upgrades. (Not that I'd do one; I always > do a clean install and then migrate my profile from the existing backup. > That takes even longer.) >
If "in-place upgrade" is supposed to mean an OS upgrade like say from OpenSuse 11.4 to 12.0 or 12.0 to 12.1, then yes, 'linux' has been able to do that for years! OpenSuse calls it a distribution upgrade. And it surely doesn't take a few hours!!! With a good cable internet connection it only takes 45 min to an hour. Download the DVD and it only takes about 15 min for the upgrade then another 15 minutes for misc packages not on the DVD. A clean install is even faster, just backup then keep the same /home directory! Absolutely painless! Dennis _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
