Red Hat's Bluecurve (was: Red Hat 8.0 is 'official')

[pll at lanminds.com]

In a message dated: Sat, 05 Oct 2002 19:54:03 EDT
steveo at syslang.net said:


>Guys, I just did an upgrade of my system


Not that this is any help or consolation to you, but I have yet to 
see *any* OS "upgrade" go smoothly.  I've heard the occasional report 
of a RH 6.1->6.2 or maybe even 7.2->7.3 upgrade being successful, but 
if I recall, these upgrades were done on non-critical systems where 
there really wasn't a lot of accumulated history, etc.

On my home systems, as with any work-systems I've ever managed, I 
always make sure that *any* dynamic data will reside on a separate 
partition from the OS (i.e. /home, /usr/local) and copy all config 
files (i.e. /etc/*) to one of these partitions.  That way I can 
essentially wipe the entire system, and re-install from scratch 
without losing anything important (of course, you do need to remember 
which partition you put stuff on *and* remember to *NOT* format it 
during the install :)


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Seeya,
Paul
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