On Wed, 2013-01-02 at 10:51 -0800, Walter Bright wrote: […] > I've been avoiding upgrading Ubuntu, because the last time I did that the > installer trashed everything. Lost a day on that one.
Just because it happened once doesn't mean it will always happen. Until I abandoned all use of Ubuntu, I had never had an upgrade crash that didn't correct itself on appropriate rerun. You are the only person I know that had a total trashing due to installer fail. Reinstalling from scratch does not take a whole day. 2 hours maybe. > P.S. The Mac is the only machine I've ever been able to upgrade the operating > system on that worked without trashing everything and forcing a reinstall > from > scratch. I have the opposite experience, Apple hardware seems incapable of upgrading operating systems. Their policy seems to be "you want a new operating system, then buy a new piece of hardware from the store." -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@winder.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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