20 Jan
2004
20 Jan
'04
11:10 a.m.
--- Joern Nettingsmeier <nettings(a)folkwang-hochschule.de> wrote:
given the price of harddisks nowadays, i'd say
clone your system
over to
a new and possibly larger and faster disk, and start fiddling. if
things
go haywire, you can go back.
you might even set up your boot loader to allow you to boot either
system w/o the need to open the case.
I suppose I could do the same thing using a partition on one of my
existing hard disks.
I could set up a /test partition and install a "clean" distro there.
Then when i get ready to update a package I can install it and test
it in my /test environment before overwriting my production system.
I'll have to do some research on this as I don't actually know how to
do it yet but it seems simple enough :-)
Greg
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