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Re: [LUG] Upgrade from to Ubuntu 9.04

 

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Grant Sewell wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:47:21 +0100
> Martin Gautier wrote:
> 
>> Grant Sewell wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I was brave.  Yesterday I figured I'd upgrade my Ubuntu 8.04.2
>>> laptop to 9.04.  To do this the Ubuntu way, however, I had to first
>>> upgrade to 8.10.  I have to say that with only 1 hiccup it seems to
>>> have gone fairly smoothly!
>>>
>>> On the upgrade from 8.04.2 to 8.10, the newest 8.10-supported
>>> kernel was installed, and this caused problems.  However, the
>>> previous 8.10-supported kernel was also installed, and booting to
>>> this seemed to be fine.
>>>
>>> Upgrading from 8.10 to 9.04 was a breeze and happened without any
>>> hiccups.
>>>
>>> I'm still thinking that I'll re-Debianise it soon, but I was
>>> impressed with the upgrade process.
>>>
>>> Grant.
>> Nice to hear Grant, thanks. I have a 8.10 server which I've held off 
>> upgrading as it's too critical to have to troubleshoot any problems 
>> (don't fix what isn't broken). I have a 9.04 install in the wild
>> based on exactly the same kit.
>>
>> Perhaps I should be a little braver and just bite the bullet.
>>
>> Martin
> 
> Maybe wait for 9.10 (the next "Long Term Support" version) to settle
> down and move to that?  As you said, if it ain't broke...
> 
> Grant.
> 
I agree, here.

Paul

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