* On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 05:53:12PM +1100, Heracles wrote:
> Hi Mike,
> Jeff helped me do exactly that at LCA. He used an intermediate distro as 
> a first upgrade then went to etch. He told me that was the best way. 
> Even then there were a few issues so I just bit the bullet and did a 
> clean install using one of the Ubuntu 6.10 they were giving away at LCA 
> on the open day.
> I wish you luck, but I believe a clean install is your best solution.

This is a good reason for putting /home on a separate partition on a
laptop/desktop. If things really break you can reinstall and easily keep
your old data.

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