Jaime Herazo B. wrote:
As others have pointed out, you are likely to spend quite a bit of time configuring the new stuff anyway, so that a reinstall would not take more time than an upgrade. However, if you have some time and enjoy experimenting, you might try an upgrade. I would recommend backing up the entire hard disk (you might consider clonezilla-live or use partimage directly) so that you can restore the entire system with a minimum fuss.Do you guys think it's worth to do a dist-upgrade to stable at this point? i'm inclined to just format it and be done with that mess, but he doesn't want to go that route since he'd have to reconfigure it all (i'd personally be willing to pay that price to be able to have the comfort of trusting the contents of the machine). Do you think it'd be good to give it a shot anyway? or would it just be a complicated way of delaying the unavoidable?
Good luck, and please post your experience if you do decide to experiment :) Raj Kiran