-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 19 December 2003 12:44, Ghod wrote: > well if your upgrading and the install fails you might not be able to > BOOT.. but the CD will always be bootable > > William Hooper wrote: > >Ghod said: > >>and what happens should the install fail? > > > >What happens if the install falls when using CDs? Why would installing > >from the HD be any different? I have done CD installs, HDD installs and FTP installs, if you are upgrading in place its much of a muchness (assuming you have a stable Internet connection). The safest method of all is to install the OS to a new HDD, then bring over your data from the old HDD afterwards. Its often the case that you ran out of space anyway and need a bigger HDD. In this case you can at all times return to your pre-install state just with a HDD swap. If you are upgrading to the same HDD then even if the install is a disaster, you can still install fresh to a new HDD, mount the old guy and recover the data... its hard to imagine that the install would destroy the filesystem, unless you are dumb enough to nuke it with fdisk during the install action. I have upgraded RH9 -> Fedora in situ several times and not had a problem, but the new HDD method is guaranteed not to kill your data if you consider it critical. Installing from HDD is actually less error-prone than from burnt CDs, since there is no possibility of burn/read errors, which are a very real factor. William has sent out a lot of helpful advice on the list, it doesn't sound like a good idea to complain at him (especially when he was right). Better to admire superior advice than deny it, even if it stings for a minute or two. - -Andy -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/4yh3jKeDCxMJCTIRApuMAJ4uBrn6G1cYDjvp6fTCmtQjtV2TvwCfb9Jr U1QYTzbjdIlFm0eFq+LTGgo= =TtAr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
