Move, or reinstall new?

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 5 May 2004, Tim Wunder wrote:
> 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.

FWIW, i've never been a very big fan of fresh installs.  They take up so
much time for me to tweak everything the way I like/need it.  And on top
of that, upgrading rarely goes 100% smoothly.  There's always stuff that
is either broken, or just isn't compatible with the new version.

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