installation guide section on upgrading

Jonathan Jesse jjesse at iserv.net
Sun Mar 5 01:14:01 UTC 2006


On Saturday 04 March 2006 17:30, Matthew East wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-03-05 at 08:38 +1030, John Steele Scott wrote:
> > Matthew East wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2006-03-04 at 15:05 +1030, John Steele Scott wrote:
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> I saw the documentation letter put out my Matthew East this weekend
> > >> and decided to take a log at the Ubuntu install guide for Dapper. I am
> > >> trying to look at these docs from the point of view of the various
> > >> people I have given Breezy CDs to.
> > >>
> > >> I noticed that in the table of contents for the install guide there is
> > >> nothing about upgrading from a previous version of Ubuntu. On the CD
> > >> sleeves of the Breezy CD there is nothing about upgrading either.
> > >>
> > >> Is there any documentation for people who are upgrading from Breezy or
> > >> Hoary to Dapper?
> > >
> > > This will normally appear in the release notes. The draft release notes
> > > for dapper don't have this yet:
> > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DapperReleaseNotes
> > >
> > > Maybe we can think about including an entry in the Desktop Guide...
> >
> > I should clarify that I wasn't actually thinking about "what's new in
> > Dapper" kind of information, but more the "how to upgrade" information.
>
> Yep, you were clear :) Having just looked at the Breezy release notes, I
> realise that there is nothing in them about upgrading, it only appears
> to have been done for Hoary[1]. For breezy there was a wiki page[2], but
> nothing on the website.
>
> [1] http://www.ubuntu.com/download/releasenotes/504
> [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BreezyUpgrade
>
> This should clearly be done _somewhere_ ;) The installation guide seems
> like a reasonable place. Colin, any plans for adding dist-upgrading
> information in there? I think a section in the Desktop Guide would be
> appropriate too.
>
> Matt


Should be in the Kubuntu release notes on how to upgrade, I'll double check to 
make sure and change anything 




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