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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