Upgrading to Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10

[Tim Mullins]

You must have missed the bit where the guy says he is using a WUBI install
of Ubuntu inside the Windows C:\ Drive.

Your instructions probably will not work for a WUBI install, as it uses a
Virtual Hard Drive Images like a Virtual Machine. Even if they did work, it
is known that a WUBI install is slower than a real install, so my point to
the user who asked the question was that since your running a WUBI install
you should do a clean install.  Funny how you ignored that bit and took the
rest completely out of context.



2009/10/19 Dave Hall <dave.hall at skwashd.com>

> On Sun, 2009-10-18 at 03:18 -0700, Timmy wrote:
> > You would be better off doing a clean-install of Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic
> > Koala because you need to do a clean install to get the better
> > performance from the enw file system it uses as default.
>
> You can upgrade to ext4 in place.  See
>
> http://maketecheasier.com/how-to-upgrade-from-ext3-to-ext4-without-formatting-the-hard-disk/2009/04/21as an example - google found many similar articles.
>
> This "do a clean install" for each new release mantra is not only wrong,
> it is very annoying.  Debian (and so ubuntu) has had excellent package
> management for over a decade.  Even fedora allows seemless upgrades
> these days.  Windows users are used to reinstalling every 6 months,
> Linux users shouldn't have to.
>
> Cheers
>
> Dave
>
>


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