Re: Hardy install over existing Ubuntu install

On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Pat Brown <pat.mysterywriter@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I'd love to use the Upgrade Manager but when I run it, it finds over 300
updates and says it can't do a full installation. When I try to run a
partial, it comes back with another error saying it can't authenticate
the packages and that I should try again later. I've tried this a half a
dozen times over the last few days. No luck. I'm having problems with my
system that I'm sure need these updates to fix them, but I can't do the
updates. So I thought installing the lates Ubuntu LTS I might get past
this point and be able to get those updates, or their already in the LTS
version.

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Jayson Rowe wrote:


On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Pat Brown <pat.mysterywriter@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:pat.mysterywriter@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

I've got the newest release of Ubuntu 8.04 - the LTS version I
believe.
When I run the install, will it overwrite everything or will it
recognize the Linux partition and simply replace the core files and
leave my home directory and documents folder alone? I'm backing
things
up but don't know of a way to save all my emails outside of
physically
saving all. But I'd like to install this to fix some issues I'm
having
not being able to run updates.

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If you have /home on a seperate partition you will be ok - if you have
everything in a single partition, settings will be overwritten.

You may also want to consider upgrading via Upgrade Manager online if
you can.

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You might try upgrading using the Alternate Install CD (snipped from the
Ubuntu Website):

Upgrading using the alternate CD/DVD

Use this method if the system being upgraded is not connected to the
Internet.

1.

Download and burn the alternate installation CD.
2.

Insert it into your CD-ROM drive.
3.

A dialog will be displayed offering you the opportunity to upgrade
using that CD.
4.

Follow the on-screen instructions.

If the upgrade dialog is not displayed for any reason, you may also run the
following command using Alt+F2:

gksu "sh /cdrom/cdromupgrade"

Or in Kubuntu run the following command using Alt+F2:

kdesu "sh /cdrom/cdromupgrade"




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