Lucid Lynx will be released in 12 days. I suggest that you wait until then. Andre <div class="gmail_quote">On 17 April 2010 13:55, Geoffrey <<a href="mailto:gcombes4@bigpond.com">gcombes4@bigpond.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">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 -- ubuntu-au mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au</a> </blockquote></div>