[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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