Dying disk dilemma....

[Ed Greshko]

On 12/26/2012 08:40 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Dec 2012 08:15:50 +0800
> Ed Greshko wrote:
>
>> So, it seems F18 is pretty close to stable and good to go for release soon.  Rather than installing F17 I'm thinking I'll just go to F18 and go the "distro-sync" route.
> I just did a distro-sync this evening, and everything worked OK.
> The repos seem kind of quiet during the holidays, so this might be
> a good time.
>
> If you install from DVD or LiveCD, you could also disable the
> update-testing repos before doing your first update so you
> wouldn't much (if any) stuff needing to be backed out by
> distro-sync.

Yeah....  That is what I'm leaning towards...  Gonna use the DVD.   After a trip to the store....

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