On Wednesday 04 September 2002 03:38 pm, James Sparenberg scribbled in crayon 
on a yellow legal pad:
>    I wouldn't recommend doing it as an upgrade from even 8.1 to 8.2
> upgrades tend to cause more problems than they solve.  However if your
> /home directory is on a separate partition.  Then re-install to the
> /boot / or whatever other partitions you have.  Save off config files
> that are really important and can't be easily retyped (httpd config
> files samba e-mail aliases etc etc.) and then put them back after the
> re-install.  

I agree. As well, archive the .kde directory if you use KDE since there are 
some incompatibilities when upgrading to 3.X.

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