Upgrade to 8.10 from 8.04 or Install?

[Erik Christiansen]

On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 05:51:16PM -0400, Derek Broughton wrote:
> 
> I'm getting twitchy.  I want to upgrade, but the wife/business partner has
> threatened my life if I try it before we finish the workshop we're
> conducting until Wednesday :-)

Sounds fair in the circumstances. :-)

If there's a partition spare, or an unused HD under the bed, then a
clean install beside the existing distro is a sanity (and life?)
preserving way to get into bother with the new distro. The moment it
takes to reboot the old one when the wheels fall off the new one may
even be short enough to avoid discovery of one's sins. (I still have
6.10 to scuttle back to if 7.10 is too bleeding edge for me.)

Erik

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