On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 02:05:39 -0700, Michael Best <mbest@pendragon.org> wrote:
  

This was my experience with upgrading, your mileage may vary especially
if it's in kilometers.  This is what I had to do to get my system
running again.

    

I'm constantly surprised how many people wish to 'upgrade'.

Historically I've been updating my Linux distro when Redhat still was
shipped in nappies.  I've learnt pretty early on the following:

1. Never trust an OS upgrader... it always is like a dog with diarrhea
running through your house.  :(
2. Keep seperated partitions...   /home /usr/local  and normally the
ones you wish to keep...  (I also backup the entire /etc directory)
3. Ensure you have working backups... well of at least the stuff you
MUST get back.
4. Choose to install fresh (not upgrade), and format the existing
partitions /, /usr, /tmp and /var....  whilst you probably wish to
keep /usr/local and /home.
5. Recover anything you need (such as /etc based files).


You'll be up and running much faster... without the mess.  ;)
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