update Kubuntu 8.04 to 8.10

[Ray Burke]

Clay,

How do I as look in the Adept_manager for "To upgrade Kubuntu, you either need to do it via the internet as the  source for packages,"

and what is the procedure for this
" But to be honest, I think it might be wiser to get a Jaunty disk, as KDE4.2
>> is a much better upgrade than the 4.1 in Intrepid. You can get 4.2 in
>> Intrepid, but that is one extra step and a lot of downloads, You would 
> save
>> all that with Jaunty
>>

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 19:47:31 -0400
> 
> On Sunday 19 April 2009 7:13:38 pm Clay Weber wrote:
>> On Sunday 19 April 2009 6:25:40 pm Ray Burke wrote:
>>> clay,
>>>
>>> don't quite understand-
>>
>> OK To upgrade Kubuntu, you either need to do it via the internet as the
>> source for packages, or by using the Alternate disk (the text-based
>> installer version) as the source, as per the instructions in the link I
>> gave.
>>
>> Using the Livecd, you *have* to install Intrepid from scratch, but that is
>> OK, as you have a separate home partition (where all your data is):
>> /dev/sdb2; When you get to the partitioning section. all you need to do is
>> make sure you do not set your /home to be formatted, only allow it to
>> format "/", /dev/sdb1
> I forgot to say to also make sure you set /dev/sdb2 as your /home in the 
> partitioner section, as well as setting /dev/sdb1 as "/" 
> 
> Some screenshots of the installer can be seen here:
> http://tinyurl.com/2fnxv8
> there are good shots and info about the partitioner there, as well as the 
> rest of the installer
> 
> 
>> But to be honest, I think it might be wiser to get a Jaunty disk, as KDE4.2
>> is a much better upgrade than the 4.1 in Intrepid. You can get 4.2 in
>> Intrepid, but that is one extra step and a lot of downloads, You would 
> save
>> all that with Jaunty
>>
>>>  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
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Any one out there help
>>>>>
>>>>> 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
>>>>
> 
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