Re: upgrade-dist to lenny vs. reinstall
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 01:40:46PM -0500, Don Montgomery wrote:
> Now that etch is mainstream, is upgrade-dist from etch to
> lenny asking for trouble, or is it still best to do a
> fresh install? If it is OK, are there any particular
> gotchas to watch out for?
Reinstall of Debian is never required and rarely useful. The only
exception being changes to storage layout which can be difficult to
enact later eg root on RAID and/or LVM, which the installer can
configure for you nowadays. Or filesystem attributes which can't be
added to existing volumes.
I used to have machines that had been upgraded from buzz (1.1) all the
way to at least woody (3.0). Although they could still be upgraded
they're in landfill now.
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>
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