[wplug] Several questions

[terry mcintyre]

---- Original Message ----

> From: Michael Semcheski <mhsemcheski at gmail.com>
> 
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Mark Sikora wrote:
> > The painless upgrade that some distros advertise is alluring, but in my
> > experience and from what I hear....not that often successful.
> 
> Painless upgrades are over-rated, painless reinstalls are under-rated.
> 
> That is, its a pain to reinstall your OS if you use Windows, don't
> have good backups, don't have a well worn path (ie, a kickstart or
> script) to handle the installation and setup.  But if none of those
> things apply to you (because you did the work upfront) then
> reinstalling is often the easiest way to do upgrades or solve
> problems.  It took me 45 minutes to "upgrade" my Fedora 9 machine to
> Fedora 10 by wiping out F9 and installing F10.

Amen! Regardless of distro, it's much simpler to backup your goodies to an external drive, wipe the main drive, and install the new OS.

"upgrades" are seldom as painless as advertised. Besides which, most people need a good excuse to backup their systems, and this one'll do.