Fresh install?

[Ric Moore]

On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 11:52 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Ric Moore wrote:
> If there's "no trace" of an old install, I see no point in doing it.  I've
> spent 15 years assembling this mass of materials (some of it coming from
> pre-Windows days) and I want to keep it.  The beauty of a clean install on
> Linux is that I _can_ do that, because programs, configuration, and data
> are all separate.  The beauty of an upgrade is that I can (usually) do it
> faster.

That wasn't my experience in the "Yum/RPM" world. Just one bleep or
bloop on the line and potentially you could get hosed by a stalled
upgrade. The Fedora List had it's share of people posting that is
exactly what happened. So, I buy the DVD for cheap, and install fresh to
a partition. I chain load both grubs and can also mount the other
partition to move things over, slowly and effectively. 

Me, I dink with my system a lot too, so a fresh install has none of the
dinkings I did... which were usually the result of some system tool
being borked which I manually repaired. If I get lucky in the fresh
install, if the problem became fixed, then my previous dinkings aren't
in the way. So, I'm hesitant to disturb things. The case for fresh
install vs Upgrading is purely personal. It depends on your/my
experiences as to why one or the other would be used. I like having my
fall-back position, as a result of my experiences from another Distro.
Also, since this is my livelyhood, I'm darn cautious. Our Non-Profit has
accumulated a bunch of writings, which I backup to another hard drive as
well. But, I have to be up, online and running well in order to get
paid. Just chalk me up as paranoid! :) Ric

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