13 Feb
2005
13 Feb
'05
3:42 p.m.
Patrick Kaell wrote:
I am still waiting for the ordered CD's... But
the old version is still
good enough, so I can still wait, no need to download ;-)
I got mine from www.liniso.de. I have no clue how long it takes for the
official set to arrive, but although I have a subscription I always
choose not to wait. Makes for an extra backup, too.
I always do a fresh install. It may even be not more
time consuming than
an update.
Not sure. It *is* time consuming to update, but when you update at least
you have a chance of some settings being kept. Otherwise you can be sure
they won't, which may be OK for me but my girlfriend wouldn't
appreciate. And I certainly do not have a log of the customisations she did.
During the update, I wondered how other distros handle this. I'd be
surprised if you had to go through all this with a SuSE or Fedora, for
example. And I caught myself thinking, "the next machine will be a
Macintosh...".
Just keep /home and /usr/local on different partitions
and
install a new version of the distro (or even another distro) on a spare
partition.
Which takes twice the disk, that could be a problem.
advantage of this approach is that you have a fully
functional system
during the upgrade and you can take your time to adapt the config files
on your new system.
True, the upgrade has to work. But that's the challenge ;-)
No supplemental
backup of your config files is needed either, because you have a full
copy of the old distro.
As long as you don't mess the partition table up. No risk with
Slackware, but I have heard of other distros believing they should be
alone on a disk, very Windows-like.
But I am glad that you accomplished your upgrade
successfully.
Me too... I thought about a fresh install, believing that it was
actually easier. But I had to do an upgrade at least once in order to
find out how hard it is and how you have to manage your system so that
updates are less painfull. I believe that I should have used something
like tripwire in order to monitor exactly what changed. Next time.
By the way: Is the upgrade worth doing? What are your
impressions
compared to 10.0? I have not yet seen an osnews story on 10.1.
I had one lock-up, but I am unable to reproduce it. I have a slight fear
that this version might be a little less stable than usual, seeing how
it was rushed out. But I can't say for now, I need to run it for some
time. I'll keep you updated.
As glibc hasn't noticably changed, I haven't come across any program
that had to be recompiled yet.
XFCE is cool in version 4.2, I have the impression that freetype 2.19
renders fonts a little worse than 2.17, but I am not sure.
Most of these are just first impressions, I did my upgrade yesterday and
haven't used it a lot since. Again, I'll keep you updated, as well as
the document mentionned in my first post.
Regards,
-pu