Re: Upgrade to 11.04

On 15 May 2011 04:24, Douglas S. Saylor <absdoug@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, 2011-05-15 at 05:59 +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
Hi,

What would be the suggested method to upgrade to 11.04 from 10.10. I
suppose there are 2 methods, one is through Update Manager and the
other is a Clean Install using CD/USB
Any pros and cons of the above two methods?

  I'm no expert, but I can't think of ANY worthy reason for
updating/upgrading. I had an upgrade fail once, forced to do a clean
install & I started thinking ...why WOULD I do an upgrade? The clean
install from a USB took 15-minutes from the partition screen to 1st
boot. Took WAY longer to upgrade & in the end failure. Maybe BECAUSE I'm
no expert I can't imagine NOT doing a clean install.
  With Micro$oft Windows computers I fix for friends, a clean install
is a panacea. Again, maybe because I'm not expert ...but if you have all
your files backed-up, why NOT clean install? Perhaps I will learn the
benefits of updating/upgrading!

Why upgrade? Because I have about 20 additional applications installed
either directly from repositories or from PPAs or 3rd party
repositories or in 1 or 2 cases from .DEB files or something. Because
I have customised my system.

And it worked, too:
http://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/26298.html

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