[Blackpool] Ubuntu Upgrade plan...

[Les Pounder]

Hi Simon, I thought that upgrade-manager could only update you to the next
version in the sequence, i.e 10.10 to 11.04, then 11.10, then 12.04?

You are right though, that would be a away to update Jon's machine, but in
my experience, the upgrade process is a little risky, as I found that Wifi
and other drivers would break, and I would have to manually install them
again. But then I am using a freedom hating Realtek wifi card, if Jon has
all intel stuff in the machine, then he should be ok.

Les

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Simon Carr <simonjcarr at gmail.com> wrote:

> You could also do sudo upgrade-manager -d I don't know if that will give
> you the option for 11.x or 12.x but it is what I did to get from 11.10 to
> 12.04.
>
> There might be another option other than -d to enable you to choose the
> version to upgrade to.
>
> You would still need a backup but would not have to reinstall and
> reconfigure your applications
>
> Simon
>
> Jon Chamberlain <jonachamberlain at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >Planning to upgrade my laptop from Ubuntu 10.10 to 11.10 soon.
> >
> >My plan is as follows:
> >
> >     1. Backup Evolution using native backup function
> >     2. Backup all of /home
> >     3. re-install from liveCD into existing (re-formatted) Ubuntu
> >        partition
> >     4. Restore /home from backup
> >     5. Restore Evolution from backup
> >
> >
> >Then: bliss. Or, as is usually the case, start fixing up what's been
> >broken (which may include GRUB and Windows dual boot, if you remember my
> >experience last time).
> >
> >Before I commit laptop harakiri, any suggestion for improving my chance
> >of having a happy experience? ;-)
> >
> >
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