Non destructive install is important.

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 12:38:25PM +0200, Klaus Bitto wrote:
> Rather than telling one should upgrade using the package management, while
> there is no tool everyone can use to do so, I'd have the installer force
> people to have separated partitions for data (/home and maybe /etc)

Incidentally, /etc must be on the root filesystem; the boot process will
break badly if this is not true. For one thing, the files that tell init
what to do at boot time, including what filesystems to mount, are in
/etc.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]