Upgrading from 8.04 to 9.04

[Rob Farquhar]

Cary, Lisa, thank you both for your advice! I'll give it a whirl this
weekend and let you know how I do.

Do I need to do anything during the reformat/reinstall to tell Ubuntu to
recognise my existing /home partition as the location of /home, or will
it figure it out itself?

ubuntu-au-request at lists.ubuntu.com wrote:
> From:
> Cary Bielenberg <cary at bielenberg.id.au>
> Date:
> Wed, 20 May 2009 19:11:08 +1000
> 
> Rob,
> I believe that the official line is that you can't upgrade from Hardy ->
> Jaunty but I have done it 7 times so far with no ill effects. Admittedly
> all my installs have been Kubuntu & the only problem is the kde3 to 4
> upgrade & deleting the .kde directory in the users home folder fixes
> this. If your using Gnome I really can't see any problems.
> 
> 
> Cary

> From:
> Lisa Milne <lisa at ltmnet.com>
> Date:
> Wed, 20 May 2009 19:12:39 +1000
> 
> 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