Hoary Upgrade

[David M. Carney]

On Friday 11 February 2005 20:08, Ari Torhamo wrote:
> la, 2005-02-12 kello 00:28 +0000, baza kirjoitti:
> > David M. Carney wrote:
> > >Hi all.
> > >
> > >I have a computer at home (only computer) that has an up to date Warty
> > >install that works fine.
> > >
> > >I see we're getting close to Hoary's release date. Is it stable enough
> > >that I can upgrade with little or no problems?
> > >
> > >I've been running Linux for several years and I expect I'll have to
> > >reinstall the commercial Nvidia driver for my TNT card, but everything
> > >else is pretty standard.
> > >
> > >i386 box, generic NIC, generic firewire card, CMPCI (onboard) sound,
> > >two ATA 100 hard drives, etc. All work perfectly now.
> > >
> > >What do you think? Is it safe?
> > >
> > >David
>
> I'm going to do the switch tonight. I think it's essential to back up
> all your data. After switching to Hoary I'll back up at least twice a
> day. I have my home folder in a separate partition, so if anything goes
> wrong I'll propably be fine by just installing Warty again and mounting
> the home folder - Evolution and Firefox should be as I left them. But
> I'll back up to CD-RWs - just in case.
>
> BTW, have you tried the Hoary live CD yet? A different version of X is
> used in Hoary and there are other changes too that might cause problems
> (I don't know much about this, it's just what I have read). Trying with
> live CD might give an early warning of possible problems. In that case
> you might want to reconsider and perhaps do what Vince suggested here
> earlier today - buy a cheap, used, smallish hard disk to experiment with
> Hoary and to tell you when Hoary is stable enough for you (it's good to
> remember though that things might get broken later too, but I guess the
> propability of brekage gets smaller all the time).
>
> Regards,
>
> Ari

Thanks for the tip.

I've used Xorg before with another distro. It sets up pretty much the same.

David

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