Subj : Contemplations?
To : Jeff Smith
From : Vince Coen
Date : Sun Sep 30 2018 02:06 pm
Hello Jeff!
Sunday September 23 2018 21:23, you wrote to me:
> Hello Vince,
>>> Ubuntu is one but CentOS may be another and no doubt there are
>>> others. The LTS distros are supported for a five year cycle with a
>>> upgrade facility for the next version of the LTS so should work
>>> well BUT do not upgrade for a few months after release - let other
>>> work the bugs out.
>> Right now I am either looking at staying with (Actually upgrading to
>> the current LTS version of Ubuntu) or installing CentOS on a spare
>> PC of similar hardware and testing it prior to running/restoring
>> BBBS onto t he machine. At the moment I use Linux Mint on the PC
>> that I do my daily desktop PC'ing.
> Looks like I might need to find another test machine to install
> CentOS-7 on. As CentOS 7 has both HD selection issues and
> installation issues using a one year old Gigabyte motherboard. Sadly,
> Gigabyte doesn't look to have much support for Linux flavored OS's.
> And I am not about to involve the BBBS machine until sufficient
> testing is completed.
Are you saying that the install of Centos does NOT allow you to be selective
on
where you install it by partition and/or use existing ones including updating
previous install ?
Although it has been a while since I installed it I do not remember having
that
as an issue - BUT it might have been installed on a freshly loaded SSD where I
creating the various partition using another distro but, again other distros
was already installed so some control of the centos install must have existed.
Note that the SSD was set up as a gpt set.
Needless to say I did/do have other issues with Centos :)
So I do not use it.
Vince
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