On 30/11/2012 13:11, Anne Wilson wrote: > On 29/11/12 19:01, TJ wrote: >> eading of head-scratching problems like this are the reason that, >> in nearly 11 years of using Linux, I never "upgrade" to a new >> release. I always do clean installs, with the exception of telling >> the installer to leave my /home partition alone. Believe me, I >> understand the desire to go the upgrade path, and I know the >> developers work very hard to make it possible, but the risk of >> problems is just too high for me. Clean installs have almost always >> worked for me first time, every time. > > In my 10+ years of Linux I've gone the upgrade path 3 times - and each > time I've spent significant time trying to sort out the mess then > doing a clean install anyway. From time to time people say "but it > works now" which is why I've been tempted to try it, but it's simply > not worth the effort.
On Mandrake/Mandriva I have done way too many upgrades to even list. On my personal laptop, I know I have done: Mandriva 2009.0 install Mandriva 2009.0 -> Mandriva 2009.1 upgrade Mandriva 2009.1 -> Mandriva 2010.0 upgrade Mandriva 20101.0 -> Mageia 1 upgrade Mageia 1 upgrade -> Mageia 2 upgrade There is one minor unresolved issue on the Mageia 2 installation, which I will try and investigate further, but all other upgrades worked perfectly (e.g. Mandriva 2010.0 to Mageia 1 upgrade was flawless). I finally got a work laptop, and migrated my home directory from the above machine, and that worked fine. I have experienced more issues with normal systemd/dracut etc. issues that with any settings/prefs. Regards, Buchan
