[TriLUG] upgrade or reinstall?

[Thunder Bear]

FWIW, most of my Red Hat upgrades have been disastrous.  Make a full
backup!

On Tue, 2002-08-06 at 22:50, Mike Broome wrote:
> So I have a RH 7.1 box at home that I would like to have running RH 7.3
> because of various upgraded packages, stability, etc.  In the past when
> I've moved to a new version of a distro, I've always done a complete
> reinstall (sadly, often coinciding with a hard drive failure and lack of
> backups).
> 
> Anybody have thoughts or opinions on upgrading versus reinstalling to
> get from RH 7.to RH 7.3?  Are there pitfalls of upgrading in place that
> I should be aware of?  Should I expect it to just work flawlessly?
> 
> I can go either route, but with all the config tweaking I've done on
> this box, if I can upgrade and not have to go through all that again,
> that'd be ideal.  (I have both backups and notes on the config tweaks so
> if I do have to reinstall, it's not THAT big a deal.)
> 
> Mike
> 
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