David Christensen wrote: ... > I understand that in-place upgrading a FOSS computer over many years is > a source of pride for many people. I tried that, and it did not work > out for me. Since then, I have invested myself in fresh installs, > minimal sysadmin changes, thorough documentation, scripting, version > control, backup, restore, and multiple layers of redundancy. The > efforts are far more predictable and the results are far more reliable. > > > So, I suggest that you put a secure erased SSD into another computer > with no drives other than optical, do a fresh install of Bookworm, add > software/ configure as desired, add disks, and migrate your data.
this varies so much depending upon how many legacy systems you have in place that will need to be verified - but otherwise i completely agree. the amount of changes that i can apply through the years that i may not document anyplace can become a problem for others later so to me doing a completely fresh install is worth the reminder that i'm doing something wrong and that they should all be either removed or documented properly. doing a fresh install gets rid of a lot of packages i may no longer be using and their configuration files that could also be hanging around. i try to review my package list once in awhile and remove those i don't need. another thing that is useful to review from time to time is my scripting include files so that i don't have aliases or other things in there i'm not using any longer. songbird
