Upgradephobia!

[David McNally]

Hi everyone.

It's the first time that I'm upgrading on this computer, and I'm now a bit
hesitant about upgrading.

On the computer I had before this (which wasn't a very good machine), I
upgraded once, and lost all of the graphics effects because the graphics
driver was lost. The next time, I lost several programs, and could not
figure out why. However, at that time, I was still using windows a lot, so
it wasn't that important that Ubuntu was having problems.

My Ubuntu computer now is currently the only computer that I have (at least
I'm not using windows anymore!), so I'm a bit more nervous, considering I've
never had a successful upgrade.

Also, when I was reading the release notes for 9.10, I noticed that ext4 and
GRUB 2 won't be installed on an upgraded computer - only a fresh install.
Would there be any way of creating a fresh install, but with all of my
programs and files (and I do mean EVERYTHING: Virtualbox VMs, Wine programs,
game saves, Compiz settings, etc), while still having ext4 and GRUB 2?

Thanks in advance.

-- 
David McNally
david3333333 at gmail.com
Linux Kernel 2.6.28-15-generic
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