-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 doug piper wrote:
>I will do a fresh install of 7.2. I have no problem backing up files on my Linux >hard drive although I haven't done so previously as I can still mount all of my >linux drives and backup any data which is important to my Windows drive using >Linux rescue. But it does seem kinda extreme. No it isn't. What's "extreme" is trying to leapfrog 4 OS releases and expect to have no trouble. "Upgrading" is always waste of time, and in this case, it's just plain silly. If you've outgrown 6.0, why are you afraid of wiping it clean? If you like your system the way it is, why are you changing it now, after hanging on to 6.0 for so long? If you're afraid of losing settings and data, then you've done a poor job of managing your system anyway. Either you want a fresh start, or you don't. Trying to have it both ways changes nothing for the better; instead, it buys you the worst of both worlds. Kinda like midsize front-wheel-drive sedans. As Ed pointed out, no sane sysadmin relies on an "upgrade path". The operating system is disposable and expendable. You should be able to completely trash it, or be rooted, and have it running again good as new in half an hour, either with the same or a new OS version, or roll it back just as quickly if you don't like the results. If you can't, you're at the mercy of system failures. If you can't replace your engine without reupholstering the interior of the car, the engineer has done something seriously wrong! (Really gettin' busy with those automotive analogies, ain't we?) "Upgrades" are for consumers who don't understand their systems, don't back up their data, and just want new features. They're not for production systems. "Upgrade paths" serve to sell new software to individuals who don't think they're brave enough to scrape the hard drive clean, not for system administrators with better things to do than babysit operating systems. Put your data on one filesystem, and the OS on several others. Have backups. Have copies of your config files. You'll be free! You can switch Red Hat versions, change Linux distributions, or even switch to BSD in a heartbeat, or do all three and roll it back to where you started in a couple of hours. Stop wasting your time. Back up your data. Save /etc. And nuke that puppy! We'll be here to help. That is my humble opinion. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp - -- http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/pale_blue_dot.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPHxjNL9BpdPKTBGtEQJBDQCg3swU40PaQ8XC8ZT3zEYb4vx3M/EAoIpr y3lgIEwMZyihoFE2Dp6RI43U =EVDQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
