[XCSSA] Monday Night's Meeting? How did it go?

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xcssa-admin@xcssa.org wrote:
> On Friday 19 May 2006 09:29, xcssa-admin@xcssa.org wrote:
>   
>> I'll take this as an opportunity to thank Glen for letting me soak his
>> evening last Monday.  The subsequent re-installs on my PC went fine
>> (i.e. I could not duplicate the originally problem)... I probably would
>> have to go back to RedHat 9 and then re-upgrade to Fedora to figure out
>> how the grub.conf entries were generated with (hd1,0) rather than
>> (hd0,0).
>>     
>
> I would recommend never upgrading between major distros like that.. esp. with 
> major kernel rev changes.  Going from lilo->Grub, 2.4->2.6, /etc/modules.conf 
> ->modprobe.conf.. too many major changes (and potential problems) to mess 
> with.
>
> Suggestion..  Keep a separate /home partition so that you can keep all of your 
> "stuff" in place when doing major reinstalls (instead of in place upgrades).
>   
Ahha (I just had one of those burned out light blub moments). 
Partioning for a production environment (which is also good for SOHO
use) is something some of us take for granted.  Could this possibly be a
short topic for one of the future meetings.  Maybe with a few lessons
learned (war stories) of upgrades gone bad. 

Steve

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