[YLUG] can't free up enough space to upgrade Ubuntu

James Mclaughlin jdm505 at york.ac.uk
Mon Nov 5 14:06:55 UTC 2012


> However, t has been my experience that upgrading, particularly Ubuntu systems, is as likely to
> make a system more unstable as it is to improve it.
...
> Given this, you ought to be able to blow away your existing installation and replace with a fresh install
> without losing any of your data.

I don't want to seem glib, but I've also had problems doing it with
"Upgrade", and to maintain system stability I would strongly advise
backing everything up, wiping the partition on which 12.04 is
currently installed and using a live CD/live USB to install 12.10 from
scratch.



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