Re: [LUG] Upgrade from to Ubuntu 9.04

[Rob Beard <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.
>   
10.04 is the next LTS version in April 2010 - 
http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/146

Saying that, I upgraded my server running 6.06 LTS (Dapper) to 8.04 LTS 
(Hardy) easily enough.  IIRC I had to upgrade to 7.04 or 7.10 first then 
upgrade to 8.04 LTS but it was fairly painless and everything still 
worked, although by the time 10.04 comes around I'll probably change the 
hardware anyway to something a bit less power hungry (maybe a dual core 
Atom).

The other day I upgraded my laptop too from 9.04 to 9.10 (not sure what 
revision it is on, I presume one of the Alphas) and it went pretty 
well.  It took about an hour to download the packages and perform the 
upgrade, and then I had to reinstall a couple of things but it went 
pretty smoothly considering it was a pre-release.

Again though my laptop is in need of a reinstall (I'm going to get shot 
of Vista for starters) and I need to clear out some of the junk (data 
and apps) that I have picked up so I'm going to back it up and do a 
fresh install when 9.10 is released.

Rob


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