Upgrade Time! But I need help.

[Steve Reilly]

Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> J Bickhard wrote:
>> I just got my Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop Edition cd in the mail today! Yay!
>>
>> However, I cannot find an obvious way to upgrade without re-installing
>> altogether. Is there someway to just straight-up upgrade from the CD?
>> I don't have internet on my Ubuntu machine.
>>
>> Jake, Editor of Micro 100 Magazine
>>
>>   
>     I have seen where others say you must use the other CD-Rom not the 
> LiveCD for upgrades, but I am not sure why....
> 
> As for me I never upgrade. I make a new partition and load your 9.04 
> there. Then I get busy and change /etc/fstab to load my personal stuff 
> at /home/karl/ . The personal stuff is in it's partition. This works 
> real good.
> 
> 
> 73 karl
> 
> 
yeah same here, i dont believe theres a way to upgrade using the live
cd, only the alternative cd.  like karl says though it may be a good
idea to shrink the partition you have now with 8.10? (i assume) and then
install 9.04 on a separate partition. (you can do this with the
partitioner at install time) this will give you 2 different versions to
boot into, and also give you another partition to "test" new versions as
they come along and still have your "everyday" partition to use daily.
thats what i do anyway.


steve