Move, or reinstall new?

[Tim Wunder]

On 5/5/2004 3:29 PM, I believe that Net Llama! wrote:
> 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?
> 

FC1 is, certainly. At least until FC2 gets released. But I believe the 
Fedora project will support FC1 for a while after FC2 gets released. I 
am aware that RHL 8.0 (and RHL 9, for that matter) is no longer 
supported by RedHat.

But the question really is, is there any real benefit to doing a fresh 
install over moving an existing install when replacing a hard drive?

I've historically done fresh installs when upgrading distros, except for 
my last upgrade from RHL 8.0 to FC1.

Tim