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After downloading all 3.3GB of Fedora 9 last night it’s time to undo all my hard work over the last few months since Fedora 8 was released and start again with a fresh install.

Most people would think I’m nuts to do this (my girlfriend certainly does) but I get a strange pleasure out of installing a new release and wiping out the old.

I know I’ll have a few issues on the way (Apache always trips me up at some point even though I’ve got all my conf files backed up) but I’ve found that I’ve got much better at getting my system up and running again.

I’ve thought about setting my home partition on a separate partiton so I can save it between installs but having tried this once it just turned into a mess so now I just recover important files from backup after the install.