On 03/04/2011 04:31 PM, Jerry wrote:
On Fri, 04 Mar 2011 12:05:57 -0700
Jim Preston<jimli...@commspeed.net> articulated:
A system should serve your needs, not its. It sounds to me like you
have become a slave to yours. Any properly maintained system needs some
degree of personalizing; ie, configuration. However, if yours is so
extremely personalized that keeping it maintained in a timely matter
has become all but impossible I would question your approach. Then
again, what ever turns you on.
Hi Jerry,
You have missed the point, my system does serve my needs to the extent
that upgrading the OS is not worth the benefit till now. A major cause
is the lack of a clean upgrade path from the early FC versions. The
recommended method was a clean install. Since version 8 or 9 they have
worked out the kinks with the recommended upgrade path being an upgrade
(pun intended). I have all the versions through 13 and will in the near
future begin the upgrade process again. Adding new features has reached
to pain point that the current version is rapidly approaching becoming
untenable. This is what happened to FC6 and I got a couple of years out
of FC7. I have also recently acquired sufficient storage to clean up the
system. A feature of .NIX with it's mount points, makes running out of
space easy to solve by adding a new disk and using it as a mount point
creating space by moving existing pieces of the OS to this new space. I
have taken that to an extreme (not the smartest thing I have done) and
this compounds the upgrade process. My last upgrade attempt failed due
to too many partitions with the same mount point name. After cleaning up
the mount points, I am ready to take the plunge.
You also missed the point on the fact that my posting was to emphasis
the fact that most critical maintenance can be accomplished with
perseverance and determination. I like puzzles and find that a failed
update is a puzzle to be worked out but that is just me......
Thanks, Jim
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Jim Preston
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