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Thread: Breezy release: upgrade or reinstall?

  1. #21
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    Re: Breezy release: upgrade or reinstall?

    I've upgraded a couple of machines from Warty to Hoary without any problems, but my primary workstation had trouble with the sound card (audigy 2) afterwards. Took some fidling to get it to come together but in the end it worked just fine...
    I've also done a clean install of Hoary back then when I got my new laptop... results were pretty much the same.
    I'll probably try the Hoary -> Breezy upgrade in VMWare first. I'm currently running the Breezy Beta in VMWare and I must say i'm very impressed with all the new stuff that hits the repo's every day.
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    Re: Breezy release: upgrade or reinstall?

    Upgrade for me since I understand we won't be able to try the new graphical installer in Breezy. Anyway, that's one of the charms of Debian distros - no need to reinstall.

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    Re: Breezy release: upgrade or reinstall?

    format and reinstall.
    This is not going to be a problem for me since I keep my /home which I keep on a separate partition.

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    Re: Breezy release: upgrade or reinstall?

    I wonder when people are going to switch to Breezy as a primary OS? When it is officially released or some time before?
    Last edited by foxy123; August 31st, 2005 at 04:33 PM. Reason: typo

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    Re: Breezy release: upgrade or reinstall?

    I wonder when people are going to switch to Breezy as a primary OS? When it is officially released or some time before?
    Ubuntu is my primary OS, Breasy will be the same when released.
    Ubuntu is the first Linux distro I really got into and therefore messed around a lot.
    So a clean reinstall will be the best and I want to use reiserfs this time.

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    Re: Breezy release: upgrade or reinstall?

    Upgrade to preview....reinstall for final.
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    Re: Breezy release: upgrade or reinstall?

    Ill probably upgrade. Ill copy my music and files to my xp partition and if ubuntu dies ill just try some other distros.

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    Re: Breezy release: upgrade or reinstall?

    Reinstall.

    Main reason is because I also want to purchase another hard drive (and go for SATA), may as well time it when Breezy is released. All I need to do is copy my /home to another drive, and reinstall.

    Also, I want to go for reiserfs on my / partition (got it on my two files drives (named /files and /files2), but not on my OS drive)
    Last edited by Deanodriver; September 1st, 2005 at 04:09 AM.

  9. #29
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    Re: Breezy release: upgrade or reinstall?

    Reinstall. For some reason my system doesn't like any kernel image besides the one that was installed. Anyway not like its hard, what with my /home on a separate partition
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    Re: Breezy release: upgrade or reinstall?

    I'm going to image my hdd, or at least the main linux directories and keep that as backup of my current config (it was a headache getting my tv card, wireless, etc working and want everything current backed up just in case). I'll then probably upgrade to breezy; and do a clean install, wiping my xp partition after i finish school ( 3 months ), when i have more time to go through reconfigging things.
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