On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 14:53, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote:
> I am using 9.1 right now, and I have ordered 9.2 as a boxed set from
> Mandrake. When it comes in, should I plan on upgrading my current
> installation, or doing a clean install? My main concern is keeping the
> software and settings I have already put in my system, but I know in
> Windows I always did a clean install and thought maybe that is also true of
> Linux.
I personally recommend doing a new install. What I do is to first go thru the home directory with Konqueror and trash what needs to be trashed, crunch stuff that needs to be crunched into an archive with Rar (Vincent Danen's site, rpmhelp.net) and then archive everything into archive segments with Rar and burn the result to CD. After that I only restore what is needed to /home/me; that way i get the cleanest install, and if I ever do need anything else, I've got the stuff archived on CD (and compressed.).
Upgrades are good for verification of the "theory" of upgrading, but when I really want clean and it's my working installation I do a from-scratch install and then put the old pieces in as they are needed.
Thank you. I guess that means a clean install will also be my opportunity to get rid of the Windows partition on that machine and grab all of the drive space for Linux.<g>
At this point I don't have too much to worry about, but my main concern is my Evolution setup. If I save the files in my /home/user/evolution directory and restore them after I do the reinstall, should that do it? Are there files I should *not* over-write when I restore?
Thank you again.
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