Upgradephobia!

[David McNally]

Hi.

So how exactly do I create a new install? Would I download and burn the ISO
from ubuntu.com and select certain settings in the installation program?

And I suppose that I would wait for about a month for all of the bugs to get
worked out (and for the ubuntu.com servers to lighten up a bit).

For me, GRUB 1 and ext3 are working just fine. After sending that last
message, I found a few other emails from this mailing list that described
data loss problems with ext4 (considering that it's a newer version), and if
it's not that much better than ext3, and if ext3 is working just fine, then
I suppose I have no problem with sticking to ext3, at least for now. And
while GRUB 2 seems to be quite interesting and all, I have also found
messages floating around about GRUB 2 issues that I'm not in the mood to fix
(and never will be), so I figure I can wait for GRUB 2 to have the last few
bugs worked out.

I don't have any weird hardware, as far as I know, so I'm probably okay in
that camp.

So I'll probably just do a regular upgrade in about a month.

Thanks everyone!

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 9:10 PM, bqz69 <bqz69 at telia.com> wrote:

> On Saturday 31 October 2009 12:50:11 am David McNally wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I have tried to upgrade a couple of ubuntus, and it never worked out well
> for
> me, so until further, i newinstall
>
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