Mate, the easiest way to do a safe upgrade would be changing software update mirrors under Sytem-Administration-Software Sources, just change the mirrors and hit update. It will give you an option in update manager saying a latest version is available. This way you will not loose any customization or data.
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Shino Jacob <[email protected]> wrote: > > <quote> > That will happen only if your home directory is in the same partition as > the root. It is always advisable to have /home in a separate partition > so that the OS can be re-installed without affecting your data. > </quote> > what about all the different programs that i have installed, that will > go right? > I have done a lot of customization to the root user. > > On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 9:41 PM, David Shar <[email protected]> wrote: > > That is correct. > > > > On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 11:47 PM, V. Sasi Kumar <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> On Sat, 2009-10-10 at 19:06 +0800, David Shar wrote: > >> > Live cd will erase the data. > >> > >> That will happen only if your home directory is in the same partition as > >> the root. It is always advisable to have /home in a separate partition > >> so that the OS can be re-installed without affecting your data. > >> > >> Best > >> -- > >> V. Sasi Kumar > >> Free Sofware Foundation of India > >> http://swatantryam.blogspot.com > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Miles to go before I Sleep > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
