Move, or reinstall new?

[Alma J Wetzker]

Net Llama! wrote:
> 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.
> 
FWIW, I always try to do a fresh install.  That has always been easier for me 
than trying to reconcile different directory structures and the inevitable 
apps breaking.  (I also came from a M$ support background.)  I don't learn as 
much, but it has always been easier for me to reinstall than attempt to repair.

     -- Alma