Move, or reinstall new?

[Tim Wunder]

On Wednesday 05 May 2004 7:16 pm, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote:
> On 05/05/04 15:53, Tim Wunder wrote:
> > On Wednesday 05 May 2004 4:10 pm, someone claiming to be 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:
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> >>>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.
> >
> > I'm reading this as:
> > "Don't do a fresh install because upgrades always mess things up."
> >
> > Surely that's not what you meant...
>
> well, sorta.  basically, don't upgrade, don't reinstall.  just manually
> upgrade RPMs  :)

OK. So to answer the question, you'd say, move everything as it is to the new 
hard drive...

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