Upgrade to 8.10 from 8.04 or Install?

[Derek Broughton]

Dotan Cohen wrote:

> 2008/11/1 Rick Bilonick <rab at nauticom.net>:
>> I'm running 8.04 on an HP 2133. Is it safe to do an upgrade or should I
>> install 8.10 (wiping out 8.04) after doing a backup?
>>
>> Rick B.
>>
> 
> If you are using only official repos then do a full backup and then
> upgrade. The upgrades are usually safe. If you have third-party repos
> enabled then you should probably reinstall. I did, it takes 30 minutes
> and it is nice to start with 0 entrophy.

I'm getting twitchy.  I want to upgrade, but the wife/business partner has
threatened my life if I try it before we finish the workshop we're
conducting until Wednesday :-)

If it works like the last upgrade, it'll disable your third-party repos
first.
-- 
derek