Re: Upgrades vs Reinstalls (was Re: sarge/woody upgrade - boot problem)

2007-03-02 Thread Michael M.
On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 23:17 -0800, Arlie Stephens wrote: > Well, I'm not exactly the world's most experienced systems > administrator - in fact, the term "incompetent amateur" is perhaps > more like it ;-) So it might be a bit more onerous for me than for > others. I've been running Etch for so

Re: Upgrades vs Reinstalls (was Re: sarge/woody upgrade - boot problem)

2007-03-02 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/02/07 01:17, Arlie Stephens wrote: > On Mar 01 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] >> Now, you've got to upgrade from Woody to Sarge and then soon >> upgrade from Sarge to Etch. That 2-step process is much slower >> and error-prone than the one-st

Upgrades vs Reinstalls (was Re: sarge/woody upgrade - boot problem)

2007-03-01 Thread Arlie Stephens
On Mar 01 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > *sigh* You are the second person to suggest in effect never actually > > upgrading a debian system, > > We'd *never* say that. Well, what the other fellow said was that in his shop, they prefer to reinstall from scratch, at least when going from woody