On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Bill Oliver <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I am a big fan of fresh installs. > Same here :) > Doing a smart fresh install does not mean that you have to lost data or > even reinstall many proprietary apps, if you keep your data and those apps > on a different partition. And, in fact, doing a clean install doesn't take > much more time than doing an upgrade. > > billo Exactly. I have separate partitions for / and /home. In this way, I won't worry about losing my important files. And doing 'dpkg --get-selections' and 'dpkg --set-selections' allows me to reinstall most of the applications that I had previously on my new install without doing it manually. -- ------------------------------------------------------------- "Penguin, penguin, and more penguin !" www.madforubuntu.com baudizm.blogsome.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
