Ubuntu Studio 8.04 -> 9.04 upgrade

[Michael Sullivan]

beejunk at gmail.com wrote:
> On Apr 25, 2009 7:43pm, Scott <ubuntustudio at troutpocket.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I'd like to chime in here and suggest something that may help people 
> in the future.
> >
> > Linux partitioning is quite robust and provides a great opportunity 
> to do seamless
> >
> > upgrades.  If you create two 10-20GB partitions at the front of your 
> volume and leave
> >
> > the rest for '/home/' (minus a couple GB for swap at the end) you 
> can do system
> >
> > upgrades without breaking your previous setup.
> >
> >
> >
> > I alternate releases between the two 20GB '/' partitions and always 
> set my '/home/'
> >
> > and 'swap' to the same partition leaving it untouched.  That way I 
> can comfortably
> >
> > test or upgrade new releases without breaking my production system 
> while having access
> >
> > to the same settings and data.
> >
> >
> >
> > If you went with the default 'everything in "/"' install, you can 
> use gparted from a
> >
> > live CD or USB-boot to adjust your existing partitions to 
> accommodate the method
> >
> > above.  As always, backup first if adjusting partitions isn't in 
> your blood and make
> >
> > sure you have enough room when you resize.  YMMV
> >
> >
> >
> > -Scott
> >
>
> Thanks for the advice, Scott, I'm actually going to try to do this 
> with the release of Jaunty, now that I feel more comfortable with 
> Linux in general. At the moment, I can't use Ubuntu Studio properly 
> for my production machine because of the somewhat broken state of the 
> Ubuntu Ardour packages. So I'm going to set up one Jaunty regular 
> partition, and one Studio partition so that I can continue testing 
> Studio and hopefully help out in its development in any way I can. 
Is Ardour in 9.04 broken??  I guess I don't know what "somewhat broken" 
implies.  If it is broken, there are going to be a lot of sad people!