William Poaster <wp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 11:56:41 +0000, yttrx wrote:
>
>> William Poaster <wp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 05:45:18 +0000, Handover Phist wrote:
>>>
>>>> Tim Smith :
>>>>> In article <eksvoyp8jpjd.dlg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>>>>> Erik Funkenbusch <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>> Ubuntu Edgy Upgrades a Disaster for many
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "Take a look around the Ubuntu Forums lately and you?ll see many
>>>>>> installation and various related threads just cropping up with problems.
>>>>>> Not just noob problems, but people that are pretty knowledgable about
>>>>>> linux, about how to fix things when they break, and they?re left clueless
>>>>>> with Edgy. I am one of them. I?ve been a long time Ubuntu fan, and to some
>>>>>> regards I still am but I surely don?t see them as Linux?s saving grace any
>>>>>> longer. I can?t tell everyone?s story, but I can tell my own. And i hope
>>>>>> the devs at Ubuntu are listening."
>>>>>
>>>>> This is why, before any major upgrade, I bring up the same OS in a
>>>>> virtual machine under VMWare, and configure the major services I care
>>>>> about to match my real configuration, and do a test run there first.
>>>>
>>>> Hell, this is why I run Slackware!
>>>
>>> The general rule of thumb for *any* linux distro upgrade is to
>>> do a clean install & NOT try simply upgrading. (Or so I was told when I
>>> first started using linux) If you have a separate /home, this shouldn't be
>>> a problem. A basic setup is you keep that, & reformat the swap & /
>>> partitions before installing. That's what I do with ALL my distributions,
>>> & what I did upgrading from 6.06 to 6.10. I didn't have *any* problems at
>>> all.
>>>
>>
>> I guess youve never run debian.
>
> I have debian 3.0r3 on one machine.
>
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
If youre running stable, theres never a problem.
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