Installing Ubuntu on a new PC

[Andre Mangan]

Lucid Lynx will be released in 12 days.  I suggest that you wait until then.

Andre



On 17 April 2010 13:55, Geoffrey <gcombes4 at bigpond.com> wrote:

> I am about to buy a new PC with a blank HDD which is to be installed
> with Ubuntu. Bearing in mind that 10.04 is on the horizon how should I
> go about this?
> My existing working PC has 9.10 (fully upgraded of course) and its home
> directory is backed up on an external HDD. This PC will continue to be
> used unchanged in a different home location and in a secondary role and
> will be upgraded to 10.04 in due course of time.
> I prefer to load Ubuntu from a CD as my internet service plan is limited
> to 1 Gb.
> I see several ways of installing Ubuntu on the new PC:
> 1. Install 9.10 (hopefully in current upgrade state) now from a CD
> that I will have to order and get from Ubuntu-AU.
>        Load in the home directory files from the external HDD.
>        Load all the programs currently used by me via Synaptic Package
> Manager.
>   Upgrade to 10.04 when it is released for the working computer. By the
> way when is that to be?
> 2. Wait for 10.04 and install on the new PC when a CD becomes available
> through Ubuntu-AU.
>        Load in the home directory files from the back up on the external
> HDD
> (will this work in the new version of Ubuntu?).
>        Load all the programs currently used by me via Synaptic Package
> Manager.
> 3. Have the local computer shop copy the contents of my existing PC's
> HDD (9.10 + installed programs and files) on to the new PC's HDD.
>        Upgrade to 10.04 when it is released for the working computer.
>
> I would like the process to be seamless and maybe one of more of the
> above ways may have problems.
> Your advice/experience would be appreciated.
> Geoffrey
>
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