On Thu, 2011-10-27 at 19:44 -0400, John Mort wrote: > I am doing the upgrade to Ubuntu 11.10 today, and started thinking. > I've had this install running since 7.10 or 8.04, and have just been > upgrading it all along. Is there ever a good reason to back things up > and do a fresh install of the new OS rather than doing the upgrade? > > --
A consideration which might be of interest to you if your setup is multi-boot and you use distribution-supplied boot managers. With Ubuntu distribution-upgrades, your boot manager continues to be grub-legacy. If you do an Ubuntu clean-install, your boot manager will be grub2. My setup is multi-boot. My primary distro is Fedora and Ubuntu is one of my secondary distros. My primary boot manager is grub-legacy, "owned" by Fedora. The boot-manager supplied by Ubuntu is my secondary boot-manager. I had to make adjustments when switching from an Ubuntu having grub-legacy as its boot-manager to an Ubuntu having grub2 as its boot manager. _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Nov 2 - POV-Ray and The Relativity Train Dec 7 - An Intro to Chef Jan 4 - Recovering the Brownfield: Revitalizing Open Source Projects
