Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 7 Nov 1998 11:31:42 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: [MILES OFFTOPIC] Re: Hello Chinese student |
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On Sat, 7 Nov 1998, Mike A. Harris wrote:
[re: upgrading Slack] > What? Are you calling backing up everything on your 10Gig hard > disk, formatting all partitions and installing a whole new > distribution, then spending 3 months reconfiguring everything > back to the state it was in before starting - impossible? It's > actually quite easy, it just takes 3 months. ;o) > > Thats opposed to the 30 minutes or so it takes to upgrade a > RedHat system.
<flame> Mike, stop it! If you really need to demonstrate your incompetence - find less offensive ways to do that, PLEASE. And that's it - demonstration of incompetence. I'm not too fond of Slackware, but a) system by itself doesn't take anywhere near 10G. b) even reformat, yodda, yodda way _doesn't_ force you to mkfs your /home. On any system. c) 3 months isn't even a humor - it's blatant FUD. Or sign of utter idiocy on part of admin. Take your pick. d) if you didn't back up your /etc before _any_ upgrade on _any_ UNIX - you are idiot. e) BTW, as for the 'backing everything up' - so, you don't do it on regular basis? Should I say 'incremental backup strategy'? f) Let's not go into warts of RH upgrade process - lusers can (and do) burn their asses with RH too. Said that, it's none of their business to touch the system-wide configuration. On _any_ OS. </flame>
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