On Sat, 2010-09-18 at 02:00 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
Get them onto the LTS release *now* and then you can safely leave 'em
there 'til 2012. *Don't* put them onto 9.10, it's already obsolescent.
Me, personally, I'd say wipe reload. It's easier than doing 9.04 -
9.10 followed by 9.10 -
On Saturday 18 Sep 2010 02:00:37 Liam Proven wrote:
Get them onto the LTS release *now* and then you can safely leave 'em
there 'til 2012. *Don't* put them onto 9.10, it's already obsolescent.
Me, personally, I'd say wipe reload. It's easier than doing 9.04 -
9.10 followed by 9.10 - 10.04.
On 18 September 2010 10:18, Tyler J. Wagner ty...@tolaris.com wrote:
Using an old copy of your home directory will be fine as long as files are
owned
by the same userid after reinstall. Very little in Gnome, at least, goes wrong
with upgrades. KDE apps between 9.04 and 10.04 may be a little
On 18/09/10 11:27, Jonathon Fernyhough wrote:
Another handy trick after copying /home/user to the new install is to do
$ sudo chown -R user:user /home/user
Just a hint.
sudo chown -R user: /home/user
will do the same thing. You do not need to add the group name after the
colon.
man chown:
On 18 September 2010 11:38, Alan Lord (News) alansli...@gmail.com wrote:
On 18/09/10 11:27, Jonathon Fernyhough wrote:
Another handy trick after copying /home/user to the new install is to do
$ sudo chown -R user:user /home/user
Just a hint.
sudo chown -R user: /home/user
will do the
On Sat, 2010-09-18 at 02:00 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
Get them onto the LTS release *now* and then you can safely leave 'em
there 'til 2012. *Don't* put them onto 9.10, it's already obsolescent.
On the other hand 9.10 on my laptop is rock solid while LTS on my
desktop is flaky with random
On 18/09/10 02:00, Liam Proven wrote:
On 17 September 2010 21:11, alan caecl...@candt.waitrose.com wrote:
I have a friend with Ubuntu 9.04 and I will do a version upgrade for
them soon. One option is to version upgrade online to 9.10 and then,
at another convenient future date, version
On 18/09/10 14:23, alan c wrote:
snip /
I do not understand the following very well, sorry. I have lots of
'new install' experiences but have never been adventurous at this stage
I think your questions are rather good ones Alan.
Perhaps either there is already, or we (the ones who *get* this
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Alan Lord (News) alansli...@gmail.com wrote:
All good questions and I think we should provide you a decent answer
that is a foolproof as can be.
Wiki?
Definitely a topic worth a wiki page. As you say Alan, these are all
good questions that don't have obvious
On 18 September 2010 16:40, Will Bickerstaff will.bickerst...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Alan Lord (News) alansli...@gmail.com
wrote:
All good questions and I think we should provide you a decent answer
that is a foolproof as can be.
Wiki?
Definitely a topic worth a
On Saturday 18 Sep 2010 11:38:18 Alan Lord (News) wrote:
Just a hint.
sudo chown -R user: /home/user
will do the same thing. You do not need to add the group name after the
colon.
Dude! If I had known that fifteen years ago, I'd have done ... well, a little
less typing over the years.
On 18/09/10 15:11, Alan Lord (News) wrote:
On 18/09/10 14:23, alan c wrote: snip /
I do not understand the following very well, sorry. I have lots
of 'new install' experiences but have never been adventurous at
this stage
I think your questions are rather good ones Alan.
Perhaps either
I have a friend with Ubuntu 9.04 and I will do a version upgrade for
them soon. One option is to version upgrade online to 9.10 and then,
at another convenient future date, version upgrade to 10.04 LTS,
which they will stay with for a longer time.
Another option is to do a clean reinstall of
On 17 September 2010 21:11, alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com wrote:
I have a friend with Ubuntu 9.04 and I will do a version upgrade for
them soon. One option is to version upgrade online to 9.10 and then,
at another convenient future date, version upgrade to 10.04 LTS,
which they will stay
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