Good Idea for new users

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- On Fri, 10/30/09, Avi Greenbury <avismailinglistaccount at googlemail.com> wrote:

> From: Avi Greenbury <avismailinglistaccount at googlemail.com>
> Subject: Re: Good Idea for new users
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Date: Friday, October 30, 2009, 9:04 AM
> Leonard Chatagnier <lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net>
> wrote:
> > Why? A fresh install on an ext4 partition has worked
> for be
> > flawlessly on both grub2 and ext4 fs.
> 
> Presumably because it didn't for other people. There are
> certainly
> several related bugs.
> 
I suppose the person doing the install couldn't have made a mistake?
And that it couldn't somehow be hardware related?  These are mentioned in some of the bug reports I've read.
> >       
>            
>   Maybe better advice is to
> > install on a fresh partition and not just upgrade from
> an older
> > version which has always presented issues for me and
> is why I now
> > always install on a fresh partition instead of
> upgrading.  
> 
> Upgrades keep ext3 and grub-legacy.
> 
> I've never had a problem doing an in-place upgrade, and
> they're not
> supposed to be troublesome. They are a supported means of
> upgrade, and
> one of the things Linux has held above Windows for a
> loooong time.
> 
I know it's supported.  Am just giving my experience and stating what worked for me.  I've done both but not a direct upgrade from an older version in quite some time.  YMMV, but I think I said that on one or the related posts.
I still think Karl's advice is not the best as far as Ubuntu goes, YMMV.
> 
Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net

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