Reindl Harald wrote: > sorry, but permanently reinstall the OS is a windows-thing > and especially unnaceptable if all 6 months a new version > is available and you have to maintain 2, 5, 10, 20 machines
I don't agree - at least if one has 2 or 5 machines to deal with. I always do a fresh install on a new partition, leaving the /home partition untouched. (I don't think this is a "Windows thing"; I don't even know if it is possible under Windows.) One reason is that in my experience there is a non-zero probability that the new version will not work, perhaps because of a driver problem. In fact I would guess that over all the Fedora systems I have installed there has been a 25% initial failure rate, usually to do with video card drivers. > a scripted dist-upgrade for 20 servers with yum takes around > two hours (proveable by logs) inlcuding download from local > repo-cache What is the script? It seems to me it would have to be pretty complicated. I certainly wouldn't trust any script I wrote to do this. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin -- users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
