[GLLUG] Re: cheap cd-rw drives

Phillip Hofmeister plhofmei at antiochcomputerconsulting.com
Sun Jul 4 20:25:27 EDT 2004


On Sat, 03 Jul 2004 at 11:22:33PM -0400, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> Also: if you install a machine with Debian, you will probably
> never have to use the installer again on that machine again.  On
> my last three or four computers, I have installed Debian exactly
> once each.  Although I've upgraded them often ("apt-get update &&
> apt-get dist-upgrade), there's never any reason to re-install
> from scratch.

True, unless you get h0xed.  Many of my machines are upgraded potato
machines.  The dist-upgrade process works almost flawlessly (more than I
can so for Mandrake, RedHat, and MS Windows).

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