Better way to install/upgrade?

["Stéphane S. Somé"]

volksman wrote:
> geo wrote:
>   
>> I did that once before when I had 7.04 installed and upgraded to 7.10 
>> - and it became totally corrupted, the machine struggled to even boot 
>> up, some data became lost - and the machine is not exactly a slug 
>> (Dell Optiplex GX260 with Pentum 4 at 2.5 GHz, 2 Gig RAM).
>>
>>  
>>
>> Jim Hutchinson over at the answers.launchpad help site told me that 
>> it's better usually to just wipe the drive and start fresh and after 
>> that nasty experience I don't want to risk data loss again.
>>
>>  
>>
>> You say just letting the upgrade/updater would not be a problem? I'd 
>> like to try it but after that experience, I'm very hesitant.
>>
>>     
> I'm not sure why people have so many issues with an upgrade.  I've got a 
> machine that has been upgraded to every release since 6.06.  I've never 
> had any issues with upgrades.  But have read enough to know they do 
> happen.  Just no clue why.
>
>   
Personally I only had problems when upgrading from a system that wasn't 
up-to-date.
Now I make sure to update all packages first to their latest version 
before upgrading.