On 07/12/2013 03:19 AM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 07/11/2013 11:38 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote:
Only speaking for myself: I always try to upgrade first, having a
complete backup, of course. If it doesn't work, I reinstall. There's
nothing to loose, since I'm expecting to reinstall anyway.
I've had an update fail too, once. Being retired and having both a
laptop and a desktop, I've always made sure my laptop gets upgraded
first and is working properly before upgrading my desktop. It took me
several days of work, but I eventually had the satisfaction of getting
my desktop upgraded without a clean install. Of course, if I were in
a production environment, I'd have bitten the bullet, done a fresh
install (/home is always on its on partition and wasn't affected by
the bad upgrade.) and started putting things back together, because
the work I did cleaning things up simply wouldn't have been cost
effective. And, probably, if I were working and I had this issue at
home, I'd have ended up with a new install because there's only so
many hours per day and so much Copious Free Time to spend cleaning
up. It's a trade-off. For me, the time spent getting things working
were paid for in the satisfaction of a difficult job well done. Not
everybody can afford to think that way.
See?...it's stuff like the stories above that make me hesitant to go
from 18 to 19....I mean can I backup my entier system andf install a
frssh copy?....then put all my stuff back? Sure. But isn't the whole
purpose of an "upgrade' so that you can do just what it says.."upgrade"
without fear of losing your valuable data or anything not working
properly?...I can always just wait for F20 to come out and then move on
from there....but I might have to ride the F18 wave a bit longer.....
EGO II
--
users mailing list
users@lists.fedoraproject.org
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
