Hoary Pre-Update Checklist

[Olafur Arason]

A) The great thing about debian package system is that it work well.
     Ubuntu also has nice upgrade features like tool that migrates
     documents to unicode.
B) dd is your friend, it is the only tool that keep the bits intact.
     dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/mnt/hd/file
     Replace /dev/hda1 with your partition and /mnt/hd with the place
     your mounted the partiton that has the extra place and file with
     the name of the file. And if you want to downgrade to warty back
     then dd if=/mnt/hd/file of=/dev/hda1 .
C) Just remember if you have a problem the bugzilla is a good place
    to get it resolved.

Olafur Arason

On Apr 7, 2005 11:14 PM, Matthew S-H <mathbymath at aol.com> wrote:
> Before I update to Hoary, I just wanted to do/know a few things:
> 
> A)  Is it better to wait for a pressed CD or to install using a "Smart
> Upgrade" in Synaptic?
> B)  What could I do if I wanted to back up my entire linux partition to
> another partition?  (I currently have plenty of unallocated space that
> I could use).  The only thing is that I would want to be able to boot
> off of either in case I don't like Hoary and want to stick with Warty
> (which I highly doubt, but would rather play safe).
> C)  Anything I should be careful of when upgrading?
> 
> Thanks,
> ~Matt
> 
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