Will It be good to migrate from ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10?

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Mon Oct 26 15:42:41 UTC 2009


On 10/26/2009 01:31 AM, Nils Kassube wrote:
> Tim Frost wrote:
>> 3: do a clean install of the new release
>>
>> Obviously, options 1 and 2 will preserve configuration information
>> but option 3 will lose all configuration (except that user data,
>> including configuration, may be preserved if /home is on its own
>> partition and that partition is not formatted).
> 
> If you do a clean install you don't need a separate /home partition to 
> preserve user data. The installer has an option to preserve existing 
> data in /home and possibly /usr/local.

Actually you do. The karmic liveCD installer isn't working properly.
See:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/444901
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/444901/comments/21>
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Only issue is why it does not offer to import the installed 9.10 home
(as was done previously in jaunty). It offers to import the WinXP files
from sda, (step 6 of 7) but not the 9.10 files from sdb. No idea what
I'd do with the WinXP files from sda...
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