[YLUG] Upgrading best-practice

[Stephen Patterson]

On Mon, June 7, 2010 10:28 pm, Steve Almond wrote:
> Hi
all,
> 
> I'm almost embarrassed to mention it, as it
sounds horribly un-techie,
> but my current Linux-based problem is
regards upgrading. More
> specifically, I want to upgrade a
headless server from Ubuntu 10.4 on
> two partitions (/ and /home)
to Debian (or Ubuntu 10.10 or whatever) on
> at least two
partitions. I've looked at it a couple of times, but my
> research
only gets so far before it bogs down in partitioning scheme
>
dogma, upgrading verses installing, worries about upgrading config
files
> while keeping settings, etc.
>      I'd appreciate
a pointer towards a reasonably-definitive
> guide/source of info,
if such a thing exists. If anyone else has a
> similar question,
then maybe it might also be an topic for a technical
> session -
not that I can attend on Mondays in term-time, but it's not
> just
about me!
> 
> 
> 
> --
>
Yours,
> 
> 
>      Steve Almond
> 
>     Web-Development
> 
> 
>
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