On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 13:44:05 -0800,
Adam Williamson <awilliam(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 15:27 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 12:51:19 -0800,
> Adam Williamson <awilliam(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > No, you don't. It's a test system. You blow it away and re-install, if
> > you don't know how to fix it.
>
> Not if you want me to actually use it for day to day stuff.
Er. Why not? You keep all your day-to-day stuff in your /home directory,
yes? Why would you have to lose that if you re-installed?
I thought you were suggesting a separate test box.
I do have partitions set up so that I can have two root partitions. That
does provide a fall back if I really hose things up. I generally don't
like to bounce back and forth though and now I am pretty much just using
rawhide and not F10 for my two desktops.
I have found some oddities with sharing /home between two version of Fedora
though. This time around the volume control disappeared.
I mean, yeah, you lose a bit of time re-installing, but it's not
really
that much. And even with Rawhide, you're not going to have to do it
every day or anything.
Between doing an initial install, tweaking /etc, updating to current rawhide
and installing a bunch of stuff it is normally going to be faster for me
to fix whatever broke rather than reinstall. However, I can see where other
people might find a reinstall easier.