On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Chuck Anderson <c...@wpi.edu> wrote:

> > Fortunately the usual updating fedora-release, yum upgrade approach
> > worked on my boxes. I'd avoid preupgrade anyway it seems to like breaking
> > systems and leaving them half upgraded so you have to rescue the mess by
> > hand.
>
> I don't even upgrade anymore.  I just keep two partitions (Logical
> Volumes actually)--one for Fedora N and one for Fedora N+1.  I always
> do a fresh install, formatting the partition from the older install.
> This has the advantage of providing a backup in case the new Fedora
> doesn't work so well.  Eventually, when updates to the new Fedora fix
> the most annoying bugs, I switch to using it full time.


and it's a shame! it's not windows when we need to reinstall and reboot with
every install.
or if it's know to be broken then remove the option to upgrade.


-- 
 Levente                               "Si vis pacem para bellum!"
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