moving linux installs

[Bill McGonigle]

On Apr 20, 2008, at 03:01, John Abreau wrote:

> The way you describe it makes it sound like you had significant
> effort and downtime to get this to work. Was it really much less
> than a reinstall/reconfig would have taken?


In this case it was a matter of certainty - one of the systems had a  
couple of apps on them that were not robustly packaged (I understate  
considerably) and the configuration wasn't very well documented  
(again...).  So, I think the average case would be similar or favor a  
re-install, but the worst case could have been weeks of reactive  
troubleshooting.

Fixing the brittleness is important, and in-progress, but the  
hardware was failing. :(  Non-ideal all around.

-Bill

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