Re: CD-less upgrade (Was: BlueTooth Issues)

[Tim <ignored_mailbox yahoo com au>]

On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 11:02 -0500, G.Wolfe Woodbury wrote:
> I will note that the "default" filesystem layout selected by the F8
> installer (anaconda version) is *not* quite as robust as it could be.

Nods...

> It seems too much like another commercial OS in that it only makes two
> filesystems (boot and root) and crams everything together in root.
> This requires the user to make full backups at upgrade time.

Not really.  You can use a backup tool that lets you pick directories to
backup, and just back up the required parts of the tree, whether they're
separate partions, or not.

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2.6.23.1-10.fc7 i686 i386

Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5.  Today, it's FC7.

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