Thanks for writing back in Michael... Was starting to think 'poor bloke... he'll think we're ganging up on him'. Yeah agree... for a 'try and see' it's reasonable to try... agree... for the server... prudent to do the advised way... and reinstall. I did a FC2 -> FC3 upgrade recently... and it left the system in a mess... (My current desktop.. .waiting for Centos V4 final) ... I ended up reinstalling as a result. As you previously stated... YMMV. Cheers, Matt. On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 08:31:16 -0700, Michael Best <mbest at pendragon.org> wrote: > Matt Bottrell wrote: > > 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: > > I had the option. > > I have backups, separate partitions, all that fun stuff. > > Mostly, it was more of an informative upgrade. >