Move, or reinstall new?

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 5 May 2004, Tim Wunder wrote:
> I'm currently in the process of moving a new 80 GB HDD (Seagate, 7200
> RPM, 8MB cache) into my home system (FC1, with rpm.livna.org and
> kde-redhat.sf.net add on packages). I've got the new disk partitioned,
> and I'm formatting it ext3 as I type this.
> I'd been planning just to move everything over (/, /usr, /home and
> swap), but now I'm thinking I may want to start with a clean install.
> /dev/hda, which the new drive will become, was used for a fresh install
> of RHL 8.0, but has since undergone a great deal of change, not the
> least of which was an upgrade install of FC1.
> Anybody have any good (or half-baked) reasons why I'd want to do a fresh
> install of FC1 rather than to simply move my existing install over to
> the new HDD?

RH8 isn't supported any more, FC is?

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