4 Jan
2011
4 Jan
'11
3:35 p.m.
On Tuesday 04 January 2011 15:25:08 S C Rigler wrote:
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 7:17 AM, Peder Hedlund
<peder(a)musikhuset.org> wrote:
While I do encounter the odd failure in updates every now and then, the number
of catastrophic failures (possibly resulting in data-loss) has been zero with
SuSE, Gentoo and ubuntu (*). The hours spent getting watching one system to
upgrade while working with another where much better used then the hours spent
setting up a new system with all the small quirks and settings to re-create my
needed working environment.
My advice: If there is a supported upgrade-path for your distribution, use it.
Have fun,
Arnold
(*) My only data-loss was from gentoo to ubuntu where I tried to be smarter
then some system-tools, messed around with the partition-table and fucked up
big time. Thanks to backups and version-control-systems only un-important mail
was lost. And some time after I deleted direct copies of the disk-space
concerned I learned about testdisk which would have helped in that case too...
And a tip once you upgrade lanas: buy a new
harddrive and do a fresh
install.
You can even keep the old one and set up the bootloader to dual-boot your
old system if you feel like you need to experiment with the new system
first.
I second this, especially when upgrading from something as old Fedora 8.
IIRC, the upgrade process takes significantly longer than a fresh install
would and the chances of catastrophic failure are pretty high (as in
"certain").