Upgrade to 8.10 from 8.04 or Install?

[musicman]

Upgrade worked for me, 8.04->8.10 no hassles.



On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 8:51 AM, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> 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.
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> derek
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