Upgrade

[Raquel]

On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 12:41:16 -0800
Raquel <raquel at thericehouse.net> wrote:

> I'm wondering about being able to upgrade.
> 
> I have a laptop being used by my spouse that is running Debian Etch.
> Rather than upgrading to Lenny I'm wondering about "upgrading" to
> Ubuntu Intrepid.  She wants to keep the same applications and data
> but I'm not so sure of the ability to just upgrade.  Anyone have any
> experience, or words of wisdom?
> 
> -- 
> Raquel

On this, I decided to just install Intrepid, formatting everything
but the home directory.  Then I made sure that all the same software
packages were installed.  For most of them, the local settings were
still in the home directory so she had to do little setup once I got
the "bigger picture" taken care of.

-- 
Raquel
http://www.byraquel.com
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