Upgrade vs Reinstall

[jludwig]

On Tuesday 12 April 2005 08:52 am, Tim Holmes wrote:
> Good Morning All!!!
>
> As we look toward the end of the academic year, I am beginning the
> process of planning the IT projects for the summer.  One of the major
> projects that I have in mind is to convert all of our FC2 boxes to FC3
> -- I have about 6 FC2 servers in various roles around the school.  What
> I am wondering is if there is a proper upgrade path, or if it is better
> to back up the data and start over from scratch?
>
> If a RELIABLE upgrade path is available, can someone please point me to
> the docs etc (since this would be the first Linux upgrade that I have
> done, a step by step cook book style doc would be real helpful)
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> Tim Holmes
>
> IT Manager / Webmaster
> Medina Christian Academy
> A Higher Standard...
>
> Jeremiah 33:3
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One issue is if upgrading "over a wire'" is if there is a failure, be it power 
a scrambled download, missing archive etc. This can leave the system 
unbootable.

With a cdrom you always can restart the process, be it upgrade or reinstall.
-- 
John H Ludwig