Upgrading from 8.04 to 9.04

[Sean Van Buggenum]

Hi rob,

I think i would personally recommend a clean install. As you said, you have
your home directory on a separate partition, this makes it very convenient
to do a fresh upgrade.

Myself, I have my home directory also on a different partition, and a script
of install commands (apt-get install) for software which i typically always
use.
So a quick Ubuntu install, and 10 minutes of running the script, and i am
back up and running, with the new operating system, and my previous
settings.

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> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 19:04:41 +1000
> From: Rob Farquhar <imagines at bigpond.net.au>
> Subject: Upgrading from 8.04 to 9.04
> To: ubuntu-au at lists.ubuntu.com
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> 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!
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> Thanks,
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> Rob Farquhar
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