Upgrade question

[Frank Arnold]

Thank you, Merv. I will follow your suggestions.
Frank Arnold

On Saturday 15 October 2005 20:42, Merv Curley wrote:
> On Thursday 13 October 2005 14:46, Frank Arnold wrote:
> > Question on upgrading with a CD:
> > Does the CD format the drive so that you lose all your data or
> > do you get an "upgrade" option like other distributions?
> > Frank Arnold
>
> Well my experiences show most distros suggest a new install for a new
> release.  Many config things etc are liable to change.  For example
> SuSE did not suggest upgrading from 9.3 to 10.0.  And when I did the
> Fedora Core1 to 2, we did new installs.  Why not just add  Breezy  to
> your sources.lst file and see how it goes?  Save all your valuable
> data tho.
>
> eg, I found that Kweather didn't work in Hoary and the upgrade of KDE
> didn't fix the problem. However in the Breezy release candidate the
> applet did work.  I have no idea what the Gods did which I couldn't
> figure out.
>
> I find it is usually best to install new and copy most of my $HOME
> directory across and 90% of the applicable /etc files. Then I always
> have a working fallback. Depending on the entries in your Grub menu
> you might want to save it and just add Breezy manually.  I am still
> using the SuSE 10 Grub menu for example and I have added 4 distros to
> it.
>
>
> --
> Merv Curley
> Toronto, Ont.Can
>
> Linux    Kubuntu 5.1.0
> KDE    v. 3.4.2
> Kontact  v. 1.1.2