<div dir="ltr">Jep,<div><br></div><div>Sound advice. Have never worked with virtual machine, so might have to look into that. I see on the Linux shows that they test out new systems in virtual. My efforts tend to be to use a burned LIVE distro to try out, but know that is not as great experience, but gives some idea if my system will handle the new software.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Don</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 5:00 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jep200404@columbus.rr.com" target="_blank">jep200404@columbus.rr.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Fri, 10 Jan 2014 16:47:26 -0500, Rick Troth <<a href="mailto:rmt@casita.net">rmt@casita.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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> If you plan to experiment then I recommend you learn as much command<br>
> line and "text mode" as you can. Makes recovery a lot easier.<br>
<br>
Playing around in virtual machines eases "recovery" also.<br>
<br>
Make a fresh virtual machine and do a plain install of the<br>
hot new disto on it. Then clone it and futz around.<br>
If your futzing screws things up the clone,<br>
then reclone the original distro and futz around some more.<br>
<br>
Don't get rid of an old virtual machine until you are happy<br>
with the new virtual machine.<br>
<br>
Writing down what you do and what happened is helpful.<br>
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