Re: Kubuntu new version

john hansen wrote:
jellybean stonerfish wrote:
On Wed, 09 May 2007 09:45:23 +0100, john hansen wrote:

ray wrote:
On Tue, 08 May 2007 16:09:36 +0100, john hansen wrote:

I have Kubuntu 6.06 installed and have ordered a CD (32bit) with
Version 7.04. My question is can I just install 7.04 or must I delete
6.06 first? If so does that mean that all my settings and programs
are lost?

John
I have been given to understand that you can upgrade the in place distro -
one step at a time. So you'd have to upgrade from 6.06 to 6.10 and then
from 6.10 to 7.04. You can do that all online.

Ray,

Thanks for that comment. Now I just need to find out how to upgrade from
6.06 to 6.10 and then to 7.04. You say I can do it online but how?
Advice would be most welcomed.
TIA.

John

My system had problems after upgrading to 7.04. Lots of crashes, and when
using apt or synaptic there would be errors. I would recommend a clean
install. You do have you /home folder on a separate partition?

stonerfish

Negative.

John
I recently upgraded from 6.06 to 7.04, and I had to bite the bullet and backup everything (I cheated; copied everything I could from /home to a spare drive on a windblows box on my LAN). I created a /home partition on the drive when I did a clean install of 7.04, and even had to re-install 7.04 after some mucking about (long story there...) and having a separate partition for /home was a lifesaver. It seems that most distros have given up on partitioning the drive for an install,and it makes sense to keep documents and application data away from the OS, regardless of which OS you are using.
Good luck!

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David's Inner Geek
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