Kubuntu upgrade install

[Art Alexion]

Steve Turnbull wrote:

>On Monday 14 November 2005 03:39, Frank Arnold wrote:
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>>Wow! They sure like to make it hard for you.
>>Such a great distro too.
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>It is a fantastic distro - a little time spent would be worth it...
>
>I assume that your not sure wether or not your /home is on a seperate 
>partition. Therefore I would suggest backing everything up onto a seperate 
>drive or somewhere that won't get overwritten, then doing a fresh install. 
>Its actually quite easy really if you read carefully as you go...
>
>Hint - when it comes to partitioning the drive for the new install, create 3 
>partitions;
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>/             - the root of the OS
>/home    - directory for users' accounts
>/SWAP    - say 500MB - 1GB depending on how much disk drive space you have
>
>This way, if ever you did want to re-install, you can simply keep your /home 
>partition in tact. All you application settings will be saved as well as your 
>data...
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>

Having /home on a separate partition has its benefits, but has its
drawbacks also.  The old wisdom used to provide for many partitions:
/home, /usr/local /tmp /boot /swap and so on.  The problems I have had
with this fall into two categories.

Unless disk space is practically unlimited, you have to accurately
predict the size requirements of the partitions.  There is nothing more
frustrating than running out of space on one partition while you have
loads of unused and practically speaking, unusable space on another.

Program settings in a home directory are often incompatible with the
updated versions of the programs in the new distro.

The good news is that, as long as you are upgrading to a newer version
of the same distro, the upgrade scripts will leave your personal data
alone.  So, I lost no personal data when upgrading from warty to hoary. 
I haven't upgraded from hoary to breezy -- and there are still too many
problems with breezy buzzing about these lists to do so yet -- so I
can't guarantee that a hoary to breezy upgrade will go as smoothly as
the warty to hoary upgrade did.



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