2009/5/13 Dean Sas :
> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 04:29, Liam Proven wrote:
>> 2009/5/12 Alan Pope :
>>> 2009/5/12 Liam Proven :
The key thing is to keep your /home directory tree on a separate
partition. That makes re-installing much less painful and fiddly.
>>>
>>> Not really. You ca
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 04:29, Liam Proven wrote:
> 2009/5/12 Alan Pope :
>> 2009/5/12 Liam Proven :
>>> The key thing is to keep your /home directory tree on a separate
>>> partition. That makes re-installing much less painful and fiddly.
>>>
>>
>> Not really. You can reinstall over the top these
2009/5/12 Alan Pope :
> 2009/5/12 Liam Proven :
>> The key thing is to keep your /home directory tree on a separate
>> partition. That makes re-installing much less painful and fiddly.
>>
>
> Not really. You can reinstall over the top these days and it will wipe
> everything except /home - even if
2009/5/12 Tony Pursell :
> Hi all
>
> I have upgraded all the way from Warty to Jaunty with no problems
> due to the upgrade process going wrong.
>
> Cheers
> Tony
*Boggle*
Wow! Well, I'm impressed!
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Hi all
I have upgraded all the way from Warty to Jaunty with no problems
due to the upgrade process going wrong.
Cheers
Tony
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2009/5/12 Liam Proven :
> The key thing is to keep your /home directory tree on a separate
> partition. That makes re-installing much less painful and fiddly.
>
Not really. You can reinstall over the top these days and it will wipe
everything except /home - even if it's all on one partition. This
2009/5/12 Lucy :
> 2009/5/12 Robert Longstaff :
>>> Hi -- I was just wondering, why it is that the community-at-large seems to
>>> think that it is better to reinstall to a newer version of Ubuntu rather
>>> than to run the upgrade?
>>
>> I'm personally an 'install from fresh' person, but that's
>>
I'm not very good with upgrades and things, so I was really pleased when
I upgraded using the upgrade tool, to find that it worked perfectly too.
I was kind of dreading it, with my past experience with messing things
up, but I was very impressed.
John.
jim.came...@buhlersortex.com wrote:
> Luc
Lucy :
> The upgrade I just did downloaded over a gig worth of data,
> but as I'm on a fast connection the entire install was
> complete in about 30-40 minutes. If I was on a slower
> connection I would probably have been better off using a cd
> instead. On the other hand, f I had less installed on
Well, then I stand corrected! ;)
When I installed Ibex on my Macbook, there was loads of buggering around in
the config files to get things like the touchpad scrolling working, and
loads of sound issues, and other things which I don't recall just to hand.
Which is fair enough, as there's a hell of
2009/5/12 Robert Longstaff :
>> Hi -- I was just wondering, why it is that the community-at-large seems to
>> think that it is better to reinstall to a newer version of Ubuntu rather
>> than to run the upgrade?
>
> I'm personally an 'install from fresh' person, but that's
> just me ;)
>
> Otherwise
> Hi -- I was just wondering, why it is that the community-at-large seems to
> think that it is better to reinstall to a newer version of Ubuntu rather
> than to run the upgrade?
I'm personally an 'install from fresh' person, but that's
just me ;)
Otherwise, I heard two anecdotal stories at a rec
2009/5/12 Alan Pope :
> 2009/5/12 doug livesey :
>> Hi -- I was just wondering, why it is that the community-at-large seems to
>> think that it is better to reinstall to a newer version of Ubuntu rather
>> than to run the upgrade?
>
> What makes you think they do?
>
> Perhaps these people are used
I wouldn't say that upgrading is unreliable in Windows - a clean
install is always a better option, and technically safer, but
upgrading is also quite reliable.
James
On 12 May 2009, at 11:53, Alan Pope wrote:
> 2009/5/12 doug livesey :
>> Hi -- I was just wondering, why it is that the comm
doug livesey wrote:
> Hi -- I was just wondering, why it is that the community-at-large
> seems to think that it is better to reinstall to a newer version of
> Ubuntu rather than to run the upgrade?
> Cheers,
>Doug.
personally I think the install process is such a pleasure to use it
would be
2009/5/12 doug livesey :
> Hi -- I was just wondering, why it is that the community-at-large seems to
> think that it is better to reinstall to a newer version of Ubuntu rather
> than to run the upgrade?
What makes you think they do?
Perhaps these people are used to Windows/Fedora/Red Hat where
u
Hi -- I was just wondering, why it is that the community-at-large seems to
think that it is better to reinstall to a newer version of Ubuntu rather
than to run the upgrade?
Cheers,
Doug.
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