Newbie Install Question

[Philippe Landau]

>>>Are you just trying to update your warty machine to hoary?
>>Yes, but I wanted to run the Live CD to make sure everything is ok.  I
>>saw how to do it in Synaptic but very afraid of making a mistake.
> As they say, measure twice, cut once :) 
or with linux: burn 10 times and still get burned ;-)
but seriously, would be nice to have a LiveCD
that would offer to make backups to CDs
or restore mbr home folder etc from them.

kind regards     philippe