Upgrade question

[Merv Curley]

On Thursday 13 October 2005 14:46, Frank Arnold wrote:
> Question on upgrading with a CD:
> Does the CD format the drive so that you lose all your data or
> do you get an "upgrade" option like other distributions?
> Frank Arnold

Well my experiences show most distros suggest a new install for a new 
release.  Many config things etc are liable to change.  For example 
SuSE did not suggest upgrading from 9.3 to 10.0.  And when I did the 
Fedora Core1 to 2, we did new installs.  Why not just add  Breezy  to 
your sources.lst file and see how it goes?  Save all your valuable 
data tho.

eg, I found that Kweather didn't work in Hoary and the upgrade of KDE 
didn't fix the problem. However in the Breezy release candidate the 
applet did work.  I have no idea what the Gods did which I couldn't 
figure out.   

I find it is usually best to install new and copy most of my $HOME 
directory across and 90% of the applicable /etc files. Then I always 
have a working fallback. Depending on the entries in your Grub menu 
you might want to save it and just add Breezy manually.  I am still 
using the SuSE 10 Grub menu for example and I have added 4 distros to 
it. 

  
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Merv Curley
Toronto, Ont.Can

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