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To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>

Subject: Re: Upgrade or clean install

From: Gerry Tool <gstool@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 11:23:23 -0500

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Mark Haney wrote:

On Tue, 18 May 2004 11:42:13 -0400, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Upgrades should work fairly well, but clean installs are always nicer and, well, cleaner. I recommend making /home a separate partition, and that way, you can reinstall the OS without touching user data.

Thanks for all the input on this. It's pretty much the same of arguments I've heard from friends, not that I expected any earth shaking remarks. I learned a LONG time ago to have /home in a separate partition so all 8 of my linux boxes at home are setup that way. I have a test box that I've used to test the test releases and found no real major issues. I just wanted to see if anyone else had some bad experiences with it.

The only bad experiences seem to be some subset of people who do a fresh install of FC2test3 (may also be true for FC2, but not yet confirmed) on a box with dual booted windows xp and using grub to control the multi-boot.

Gerry