Upgrading from 8.04 to 9.04

[Lisa Milne]

Not at all, I've done that numerous times when swapping distro's, you
don't even need to delete anything, just jump straight into the install
and let it reformat the partition (and make sure it's not formatting
the /home partition!).

Lisa

On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 19:04 +1000, Rob Farquhar wrote:
> Hi, everyone. I've been lurking for a little while and am hoping I'm not
> being too forward in using my first post to ask for a little help!
> 
> I'm currently running 8.04 as a dual-boot with Windows XP on my home
> machine. It's been a whi8le since I last seriously fiddled with my
> Ubuntu installation and I'm thinking bout upgrading to the latest
> version. I understand that I can't directly upgrade from 8.04 to 9.04,
> though.
> 
> I'm wondering, as I've mounted the main OS files on a separate partition
> from my /home directories, whether I can delete my OS partition and
> install 9.04 straight over it. Am I asking for too much trouble?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rob Farquhar
> 
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