Online upgrade to 9.04

[Ioannis Vranos]

Robert Parker wrote:
> On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 7:58 PM, David Fox <dfox94085 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 4:28 AM, Robert Parker <rlp1938 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I am unable to upgrade from 8.10 because I only have about 400 Mb left
>>> on my 4 gig SSD drive. I do have plenty of space on a permanently
>>> installed SD card, about 4 gig spare actually.
>> I ran into this situation on a 8.04 to 8.10 upgrade last year. I
>> solved it by using a spare partition and mounting it at
>> /var/cache/apt/archives, and then doing the update-manager shuffle.
>>
>> So, I suggest mounting your SD card there. Don't worry about the prior
>> content of that directory, it'll likely all get overwritten with newer
>> files anyway.
> 
> Thanks. Good idea. I do have a spare 4 gig SD card that I can reformat
> so the existing 8 gig is not interfered with at all. Think I will go
> with That.
> 
> Bob Parker


Why not backing up your important data or your home directory, and then perform a clean installation?


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