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?
True that Debian has this wonderful upgrade mechanism. The problem is I
did unmentionably stupid things installing additional s/w on it and the
machine is all messed up. I now find local packages installed in all
kinds of places. And I would like to start with a clean slate. ;-)
Of course, if I absolutely cannot do what I am trying to do, I would
slowly start cleaning up the machine and take the upgrade path.
Sudhakar
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