On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 05:39:40PM +0800, Lai Zit Seng wrote: > I agree with that too. The upgrade generally works, and it should do > fine for any system that has been running pretty ok. > The biggest headache is when you've got lots of customized configuration > and locally compiled/installed programs. While I agree with what everyone else is saying, I want to add that in my experience, it's much, much faster to do a clean install than an upgrade. So, if you've configured your system so that when you install you can leave /home untouched and can easily restore configuration data -- and hey, you want to have that backed up anyway -- a clean install is nice. > Don't forget your mailbox too in /var/spool/mail :) A few times I asked > to reformat my /var (when I chose to re-install) and forgot about my > INBOX :) This is why I deliver directly into ~/Mail on my own systems. (Not necessarily ideal for a big mail server, but that's not what I've got, so....) -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 82 degrees Fahrenheit.
