[colug-432] Install new version at / ?

Roberto C. Sánchez roberto at connexer.com
Wed Jun 11 16:04:47 EDT 2014


I've not used Mint, but after reading that page I only have one
question: "Why?!?!"

As a distribution, Debian goes to great lengths to make sure that one
release can be easily and painlessly upgraded to the next.  Why on earth
would a Debian-based distribution break this amazingly valuable feature?
Or, if they don't break it, why characterize it as "slow, unreliable,
risky, complicated"?  I don't mean to cast aspersions, to someone
familiar with Debian's reputation for reliability and the ease of the
upgrade process, such a statement reeks of ignorance or malice.

Regards,

-Roberto

On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 12:45:37PM -0400, Zach Villers wrote:
>    Not commenting on other's advice, but Mint does not recommend upgrading
>    without a complete reinstall. The community has a good tutorial written by
>    the project lead; [1]http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/2
>    __________________
>    "do-release-upgrade" -- that's an Ubuntu-ism, but it might work on Linux
>    Mint.
> 
>    On 06/09/2014 08:32 PM, Thomas Cranston wrote:
>    > I have an 80GB drive that is partitioned:
>    > /dev/sda1 /? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  ext4
>    > /dev/sda4/home?  ext4
>    > dev/sda2/tmp? ? ? ? ?  ext4
>    >
>    > It has Linuxmint 14 on it now. I will be installing Linuxmint17. My
>    > understanding is that by having a seperate /dev/home, I can install
>    another
>    > linux distro while keeping my /dev/home and hopefully /dev/tmp.
>    >
>    > I am not sure how to do this. Will the installer guide me thru what I
>    want
>    > to do?
>    >
> 
> References
> 
>    Visible links
>    1. http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/2

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