Upgrade or clean install

[Mark Haney]

On Tue, 18 May 2004 11:42:13 -0400, Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org>  
wrote:

> Upgrades should work fairly well, but clean installs are always nicer  
> and,
> well, cleaner. I recommend making /home a separate partition, and that  
> way,
> you can reinstall the OS without touching user data.
>
Thanks for all the input on this.  It's pretty much the same of arguments  
I've heard from friends, not that I expected any earth shaking remarks.  I  
learned a LONG time ago to have /home in a separate partition so all 8 of  
my linux boxes at home are setup that way.  I have a test box that I've  
used to test the test releases and found no real major issues.  I just  
wanted to see if anyone else had some bad experiences with it.


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Mark Haney
Network, Database and Systems Administration
DoctorDirectory.com Inc.