On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 02:05:39 -0700, Michael Best <mbest at 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. ;)