[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ... > > And to sum up once again ( I guess repetitition does nothing for some > people) DO NOT UPGRADE that way.. create a separate /home area which > you almost never will have to touch again. And then install every new > version you get onto a clean drive. It weeds out the [EMAIL PROTECTED] you > install > just fooling around.
I can vouch for this advice. I did this a couple of years ago, and every update since 9.2 has left my home directory intact and fully usable. Just two problems: first, I took others' advice again to switch from Reiser to ext3fs, but my home directory is too big to get onto cd's or dvd's, so I now have a system based on ext3fs except for the /home directory, which is still Reiser. I'm digging through the home directories so I can divide it onto several dvds, but it's going to take a while. Second, I keep finding stuff I really don't want to dump, even though I haven't looked at it in years. And may never look at again. So, converting my home partition over to ext3fs may take a long time, if I ever done. I just hope the deep bugs on this list keep talking about in Reiser don't come to my system. -- John Perry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
