Upgrade to 8.10 from 8.04 or Install?

[Gilles Gravier]

I upgraded, so far, 4 machines.

- One EeePC from UbuntuEee to 8.10 generic. Worked nicely. But had to
replace 8.10 kernel with the one from Array.org and the Eee900 is now
fantastic with 8.10.
- One VirtualBox server... Worked like a charm.
- One small Shuttle server... graphics controler was not supported in
8.10 (was working in 8.04). Added a cheap NVIDIA board and works like a
charm.
- My neighboor's PackardBell desktop... Worked like a charm.

All in all... I can fully recommend the default upgrade mecanism with
works well.

After that, edit your repositories like Medibuntu to have intrepid
instead hardy and all will be cool.

Gilles.

musicman wrote:
> Upgrade worked for me, 8.04->8.10 no hassles.
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> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 8:51 AM, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
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>> Dotan Cohen wrote:
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>>> 2008/11/1 Rick Bilonick <rab at nauticom.net>:
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>>>> I'm running 8.04 on an HP 2133. Is it safe to do an upgrade or should I
>>>> install 8.10 (wiping out 8.04) after doing a backup?
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>>>> Rick B.
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>>> If you are using only official repos then do a full backup and then
>>> upgrade. The upgrades are usually safe. If you have third-party repos
>>> enabled then you should probably reinstall. I did, it takes 30 minutes
>>> and it is nice to start with 0 entrophy.
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>> I'm getting twitchy.  I want to upgrade, but the wife/business partner has
>> threatened my life if I try it before we finish the workshop we're
>> conducting until Wednesday :-)
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>> If it works like the last upgrade, it'll disable your third-party repos
>> first.
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>> derek
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