update Kubuntu 8.04 to 8.10

[Ray Burke]

clay,

don't quite understand-

 Just run the installer and set  up your partitions as normal, 
> making sure you know which ones are which. You would only have it format 
> your "/" partition (/dev/sdb1).

ray

> From: claydoh at midmaine.com
> To: kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: update Kubuntu 8.04 to 8.10
> Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 18:21:16 -0400
> 
> On Sunday 19 April 2009 5:20:52 pm Ray Burke wrote:
> > From: rayburke30 at hotmail.com
> > To: kubuntu-users-owner at lists.ubuntu.com
> > Subject: update Kubuntu 8.04 to 8.10
> > Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 07:13:16 +1000
> >
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> > Any one out there help
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> > I am getting a live cd rom of Kubuntu 8.10 from conincal, and want to
> > upgrade from 8.04, but without the loss of any data from my 8.04,
> > my current setup, is three partitions within my 40gb hdd these being
> >
> > Filesystem            Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/sdb1              18G  8.8G  7.8G  53% /
> > varrun                474M  180K  474M   1% /var/run
> > varlock               474M  4.0K  474M   1% /var/lock
> > udev                  474M   84K  474M   1% /dev
> > devshm                474M     0  474M   0% /dev/shm
> > lrm                   474M   39M  435M   9%
> > /lib/modules/2.6.24-23-generic/volatile /dev/sdb2              19G  8.5G 
> > 9.9G  47% /home
> > /dev/sda1              75G   46G   30G  61% /media/MASTER MAN
> >
> >
> > the /dev/sda1 is my dual boot xp pro sp3 hdd
> >
> > can someone advise???????
> >
> > ray
> >
> You can't *upgrade* from the live disk (iirc), only from the alternate disk. 
> But it would be pretty easy to simply install 8.10 from the live cd, as you 
> already have a separate home partition so your data would not be 
> overwritten. Just run the installer and set  up your partitions as normal, 
> making sure you know which ones are which. You would only have it format 
> your "/" partition (/dev/sdb1).
> 
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/IntrepidUpgrades/Kubuntu
> 
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> Clay Weber
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