On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. <eoconno...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 07/12/2013 03:19 AM, Joe Zeff wrote: >> >> On 07/11/2013 11:38 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: >>> >>> Only speaking for myself: I always try to upgrade first, having a >>> complete backup, of course. If it doesn't work, I reinstall. There's >>> nothing to loose, since I'm expecting to reinstall anyway. >> >> >> I've had an update fail too, once. Being retired and having both a laptop >> and a desktop, I've always made sure my laptop gets upgraded first and is >> working properly before upgrading my desktop. It took me several days of >> work, but I eventually had the satisfaction of getting my desktop upgraded >> without a clean install. Of course, if I were in a production environment, >> I'd have bitten the bullet, done a fresh install (/home is always on its on >> partition and wasn't affected by the bad upgrade.) and started putting >> things back together, because the work I did cleaning things up simply >> wouldn't have been cost effective. And, probably, if I were working and I >> had this issue at home, I'd have ended up with a new install because there's >> only so many hours per day and so much Copious Free Time to spend cleaning >> up. It's a trade-off. For me, the time spent getting things working were >> paid for in the satisfaction of a difficult job well done. Not everybody >> can afford to think that way. > > See?...it's stuff like the stories above that make me hesitant to go from 18 > to 19....I mean can I backup my entier system andf install a frssh > copy?....then put all my stuff back? Sure. But isn't the whole purpose of an > "upgrade' so that you can do just what it says.."upgrade" without fear of > losing your valuable data or anything not working properly?...I can always > just wait for F20 to come out and then move on from there....but I might > have to ride the F18 wave a bit longer..... > > > EGO II >
For what it's worth, I don't keep anything on the system's hard drive, and this is because before "fedup" I was downloading the software and over-writing the it. I always save all my stuff on external drives. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
