Breezy > Hoary?

[John Richard Moser]

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Steve Myers wrote:
> Lukas Sabota Wrote: 
> 
>>I'm upgrading my hoary installation to breezy.  Apt told me that an 
>>additional 500MB would be used.  Is this correct?  Is breezy that much 
>>bigger than hoary, or is the upgrade routine just messier and leaves 
>>more things behind than a clean installation?
>>
>>Lukas
>>
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> 
> 
> The upgrade is deffinently much bigger and it does override hoary and
> intends to leave a nasty trail of left overs. If you're doing an
> upgrade, breezy might toy around with hoary's applications as breezy's
> applications are a higher upgrade and hoary is unable to run them
> correctly.
> 
> If you do run into any issues while upgrading and find yourself stuck,
> then please upgrade by doing a fresh install.
> 

*shameless plug for separate /home partition*

. . . that or just make the installer give an option to rm -rf
everything != /home instead of format.

> The link below provides you with the download link and the live cd
> link.
> 
> http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=63684
> 
> Good Luck!
> 
> 

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