Move, or reinstall new?

[Kurt Wall]

In a 1.0K blaze of typing glory, 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?

I like a fresh installation, especially if I've upgraded a bunch of
software and, especially, have lost track of what I upgraded. This 
might even be more useful if you've installed FC1 over an older RHL
installation - God only only knows what *that* did. 

> (And no, Collins, I'm not gonna install GenToo...)

Thank you. Install Slackware. ;-)

Kurt
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	A chemist who discovers a laundry additive that rhymes with
"bright".