Ed Down wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote:
> > On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote:
> > > I am planning on installing Debian 1.3 on my laptop. I have had prior
> > > success installing 1.2 on this same laptop. I prefer to clean up the
> > > hard-disk and start from scratch.
> > You do?
> >
> > I switched to Debian a year and a half ago in the hopes I would never have
> > to do that again! I'm probably safe saying that hundreds of other Debian
> > users would say the same thing.
> >
> > I'm very curious as to why you would not just upgrade in place; one of
> > Debian's claims to fame?
>
> Those of us who followed the recommendations of the docs installed 1.1 on
> one partition. I upgraded to 1.2 by just gradually installing all the 1.2
> packages, but now I have realised the error of one partition and I will be
> installing 1.3 from a clean hard disk on to several partitions - with
> /home and /usr/local backed up and reinstalled of course.
The same in my case too. Ideally, I would like to have seperate
partitions for /, /usr, /usr/local, /home and /root. One wants to
maintain a clean machine. ;-)
Another thing. The more installs and re-installs that one does, the
more one learns in the process - IMO. I have had hours of bliss (and
learning) installing Debian on all kinds of machines.
Sudhakar
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