Upgrading from Lucid to Maverick: Fresh, new Install vs Upgrade using Update Manager

[Tom H]

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 5:55 AM, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> On 12/01/2010 03:31 AM, Alan Pope wrote:
>> On 30 November 2010 07:34, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>>
>>> The Upgrade Manager 'suggested' to me that it would take 105 minutes to
>>> download the upgrade files (at which point I went shopping after I
>>> answered "Go Ahead") and after this downloading finished it "told" me
>>> that it would take 90 minutes to process the new files, except that at
>>> the 45 minute mark the whole bloody sheebang stopped because the stoopid
>>> upgrade system was waiting for me answer "Yes" to the question if I
>>> accepted the EULA re the ttf mscorefonts -- and there was NO way I could
>>> respond to this because the EULA menu was BEHIND the Update Manager menu
>>> and there was no way which I knew (and I tried even waiving a live
>>> chicken's leg [from one of the chicken's next door] to bring up the
>>> 'background' EULA menu to be able to answer "YES!"
>>
>> * Upgrades download more than clean installs (not exactly 'news' given
>> many upgrades will be upgrading more packages than a base install will
>> have, so will inevitably have more to download)
>>
>> * You unfortunately hit a bug in the upgrade process
>>
>> Now, if the purpose of your mail was to rant about the upgrade then
>> that's done,
>
> It is astonishing what people will write when they have some
> preconceived idea about another person's intentions.
>
> There have been numerous questions from people in this forum about
> whether to upgrade or to go for a clean install. Responses varied.
>
> I just went thru the exercise of doing something which I never did do
> before and so thought that it would be useful for those who will be
> asking the same questions about upgrade vs clean install, to be
> proactive and provide some info about my experience.

It was a PITA post that had no reason to be on this list except that
you felt like blogging.

If only you had kept it as short as Alan's summary above.