How to upgrade from warty to hoary...
Daniel Robitaille
robitaille at gmail.com
Fri Apr 1 08:35:31 UTC 2005
> Is there a way to accomplish that? I don't want to install a new system,
> just to upgrade my existing warty, possibly without downloading a CD
> image, just by means of apt-get or something like that.
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/HoaryUpgradeNotes
> On the other hand, are there any risks in this operation? Should I
> really install a totally new system?
do backups first! any upgrade is never risk-free. Some people would
recommend to do a fresh install; some would say that an upgrade is
good enough. Personally I did an upgrade from Warty into Hoary
using apt-get a couple of months ago. In my case it was relatively
easy, and without any problems.
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