On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 13:44:05 -0800, Adam Williamson awilliam@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@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.