Fresh install?

[Ric Moore]

On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 10:54 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Bruce Marshall wrote:
> 
> > On Wednesday 15 October 2008, Derek Broughton wrote:
> >> > 4) If the upgrade goes bad, you are left with nothing.
> >>
> >> How?  It's _never_ happened to me, and I've botched a lot of upgrades in
> >> the last decade.
> > 
> > So software never breaks?  I admit that when it happened to me it was with
> > SuSE long ago, but I'm not about to risk that again.
> 
> Of course software breaks, and I've had it break badly enough that it's
> taken _days_ to get the system working again.  I haven't, however, ever had
> an upgrade break badly enough that I'm "left with nothing".
> -- 
> derek

OTOH, it consumes a lot of brain cells during that process that many are
just not up to. When I tried updating to FC5 from FC4 UDEV broke
horribly and it seemed I was the only one experiencing the problem. I
filed bugzilla and no resolution came of it. In the end, I re-installed
cleanly and the problem went away. (It took udev about 5 minutes to
churn on bootup and it made me crazy in short order)  Plus, I find a
clean install to be quicker from DVD than eating up my satellite. If
you're fortunate enough to have a fat pipe, an upgrade would make more
sense. But to those in rural areas with nothing more than a 56k modem
connection, upgrading would take forever and be highly prone to breakage
from interruptions. Jus' my two-cents worth, Ric


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