On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 21:36 -0800, Ed Kasky wrote: > Has anyone had any difficultes that caused major downtime during an > upgrade to 8 from 5 or 6? > > Are there and special precatutions one should take aside from having There are those of us that don't advise upgrading at all. When I jumped from 5 to 6 using upgrade, udev went to hell in a way that never was fixed. So, I now back up everything worth keeping to a second harddrive that I only mount for that occasion, and then do a clean install. I do that every time now, an have far fewer problems in the aftermath. To me, an upgrade is way too iffy for anyone that isn't just playing around with their machine. Then you start off with a install that "should" work (pardon the "should") and if something goes to hell when you restore from your backup, then you know where the problem lies. Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net <---down4now too ================================================
