[ale] Fedora and RHN?

[Geoffrey]

Christopher Fowler wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 09:52, Geoffrey wrote:
> 
>>walter Sams wrote:
>>
>>>Thank you for yoru reply, looks like you actually have an idea as to 
>>>what needs to be done.
>>
>>Yeah, BTDT..  The dual boot upgrade/install is the way I generally 
>>update my existing boxes.  My primary box was upgraded in this fashion 
>>from SuSE 8.1 to SuSE 8.2.  I've just installed SuSE 9.0 on my laptop, 
>>thus it's a tri-boot with SuSE 9.0, RH 7.3 and the Xtremely Potent 
>>variant of the Microsoft virus.
> 
> 
> On laptops I generally use BBC and dd the entire disk over net.  If
> I ever need to read it, I'll just use losetup and mount the image file.
> 
> On PC's I generally install fresh on a clean hdd.  I still have the
> old on one the box. I used to try and back them up but my time was
> more valuable than the cost of a drive.

Sure, whatever solution you use, just that you've got a way to go back 
the known good.


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Until later, Geoffrey	esoteric at 3times25.net

Building secure systems inspite of Microsoft