updating from Hoary to Breezy

[Renaud Vernet]

Nicolas Chevreux wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have played around with Hoary on a dual-boot system with XP some 
> months ago, liked it, but decided to wait for Breezy to make the switch 
> and (hopefully) be able to work 100% on Ubuntu in the future.
> 
> I find myself with a HD with one NTFS partition (XP), one FAT32 and one 
> ext2 (or 3?) (Hoary).
> 
> I want to do a totally clean install of Breezy, and discard everything 
> Hoary, to get a fresh start. I also plan on resizing the partitions 
> while doing this.
> 
> With Breezy being released soon, I've got a few questions:
> -can I resize my partitions now, or should I do thisi only with the 
> partitionner in the Breezy installer? I am afraid of nix-ing the GRUB 
> folder, and therefore not be able to boot XP anymore.
> -can I just specify the existing Hoary partition as the installation 
> partition for Breezy, or should I delete everything on it beforehand? 
> Once again, I want to get a totally fresh install (I played to much with 
> Hoary and broke parts of it)? Will Breezy just reformat the partition 
> and install itself on it?
> 
> Thanks for your help
> 
> Nicolas
> 
> 
you don't need the breezy installer to modify your partitions, but if 
you resize a partition, your data on this partition will probably be 
lost (unless you use a special utility I guess).
If your grub is on the MBR, I think you're safe, but not if it is on the 
partition you want to resize.