[ldm-users] Fedora 7 Installs

[Gilbert Sebenste]

On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, Dan Vietor wrote:

> My recommendation is that Linux has now gotten to the point where
> upgrades are just not feasible.  There are too many packages, too many
> hardware configurations and too many options to do upgrades.  My horror
> on going from Core 6 to 7 confirmed this.  I now believe reinstall is
> the only realistic option.  I won't do an upgrade for other Fedora
> systems.

Absolutely. I stopped doing this with Fedora 1. Just way too many gotchas.

> When I install a Linux system, I do a manual partition with a 5GB "/var"
> or larger for web servers, a 10GB "/" for the OS and the rest of the
> disk in "/home".  This means you can reload without blowing everything
> away.  I just reformat the "/" and "/var" partitions and then all your
> data remains.

I prefer to blow it all away, backing things up from the start, on one 
partition. Unless you have multiple drives, if the drive go, so does 
everything else.

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