I've had mixed results with upgrades also. I've fallen into the practice of backing up /home to external storage and doing clean installs on fresh partitions. Then I cherry pick what I want from the backup. On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 2:17 PM, gregrwm <tclug1 at whitleymott.net> wrote: > At what point is it better to just install the OS from scratch? >> > > in my experience you can sometimes get away with upgrades, but more often > they bite. lucid to maverick croaked. it's always better to install from > scratch. my favorite approach is install in another partition (the > installer can help you shrink an existing partition if you don't already > have one available). a lean OS install can fit in under a gig, 2g will be > plenty for most any install. more is better of course, but i've done with > less and done fine. anyway that way your data, and even your current OS, > are still there, AND you have a fresh and clean install. i usually finally > reuse the prior partition when i'm ready to install yet another release. > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -- Michael Greenly http://logic-refinery.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20120427/fa591afc/attachment.html>