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On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 16:01 +0100, Rob Beard wrote: > 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. It is my understanding that upgrades only work if one is going to the next release and that while jumping a couple of releases may be possible it may cause lots of problems. I always reckon it's better to back up /home, do a clean install of the new version and then replace the new home directory with the backup. A little more work re-installing things, but it does give you an opportunity to get rid of all the apps (if you're like me) that have been installed just to see what they looked like, but are never used. On trying out all those sexy distros that come with linux format I'd go for installing them as virtual machines using virtual box. Much less chance of snafuing ones settings. Simon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html