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General Tech => Operating System => Topic started by: lucid on August 24, 2012, 01:21:20 AM

Title: System upgrades and new isos
Post by: lucid on August 24, 2012, 01:21:20 AM

Hello all. This is a question for those familiar with the rolling release system and Arch in particular. I am currently going through a reinstall of Arch and I have two iso's.

One of them is from 2011, and one of them is from 2012. So I was wondering... If I were to use the old iso and just run pacman -Syu like everyone does and upgrade the entire system, would it be essentially the same as installing the new iso?

In other words, is there a point to installing the newest iso or would I be fine just installing the old one and updating the system? Or is it absolutely neccesary to use the newest iso even though Arch uses the rolling release system and I can simply do a full system upgrade with pacman?

Thanks

Title: Re: System upgrades and new isos
Post by: iTpHo3NiX on August 24, 2012, 02:27:38 AM

adsf

Title: Re: System upgrades and new isos
Post by: lucid on August 24, 2012, 02:31:22 AM

I figured since you can update the entire system it wouldn't matter at all.

Title: Re: System upgrades and new isos
Post by: Lionofgod on August 24, 2012, 02:45:02 AM

I would use the newer OS just to save bandwidth : )

Title: Re: System upgrades and new isos
Post by: lucid on August 24, 2012, 02:51:21 AM

I suppose....tbh though I really don't want to because it's alot different and there is already enough headaches that come with arch. The fucking config files are different. I'm not sure why.

You mean saving the bandwidth I'd have to use to update?

Title: Re: System upgrades and new isos
Post by: Lionofgod on August 24, 2012, 03:23:36 AM

Yeh, I tried updating Ubuntu from 8.04 to 12.04...didn't work out plus I ended up using a lot of bandwidth when I could have just downloaded 700 mb file of 12.04 -.-

But that's Ubuntu I guess arch must be different.