Fedora Live CD Spins - Are They Safe?

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Thu Jan 24 11:54:41 UTC 2013


Temlakos <temlakos at gmail.com> wrote:

>Everyone:
>
>I'm trying to sort out the rumors I've heard. Among other things: that 
>using a Live Spin CD on an existing Fedora system is not safe, and will
>
>destroy all data.
>
>Has that actually happened to anyone here?

Just running it no - updating always has a tiny risk.

Updating can albeit very rarely leave a machine in a state that needs a reinstall again - yes. Always make a backup. Thing like a power outage mid upgrade can be messy and hard to clean up.

That really goes for any OS major upgrade.

Alan





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