On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 07:46:54PM +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote:
The ubuntu installer autodetects the partition with the most current OS, and proposes the older for the install. I might have to pay much closer attention during a Debian install.
why reinstall? seems to me as if that's missing most of the point of both debian and ubuntu. 'apt-get dist-upgrade' works better than re-installing - doesn't lose your existing configuration or require significant downtime (a few minutes to reboot to start using the updated kernel). or on ubuntu, there's a wrapper script called 'do-release-upgrade'. not really sure what, if any, benefit it has over 'apt-get dist-upgrade' but it's there all the same. automatically updates the sources.list to the latest alliterated animal at least, and probably other stuff.
(I always keep the previous install, as a fallback, when taking the new one on board.)
in my experience, you're much better off fixing the occasional minor problems or incompatibilities after an upgrade than you are trying to revert back to an earlier version. plus, you get exciting new bugs to discover rather than boring old ones. craig -- craig sanders <cas@taz.net.au>