Upgrading from 10.04.1 to Maverick 10.10

[Basil Chupin]

Very late last night (my time - UTC +11) I downloaded 10.10 iso.

Some 693MB came down the pipeline and at my connection took just over an 
hour to do. I then burned the iso to the CD. Earlier I installed 10.10 
as a fresh install on another set of HDs. With all the installing and 
getting additional downloads, including Medibuntu packages, I guess it 
took about ~1hour to "get it all together".

OK, I thought, now let's get the "main" system done but as an upgrade - 
since Update Manager keeps telling me that there is an upgrade to my 
up-to-date 10.04.1.

So, I press the button.

Several minutes later I am informed that-

that about 12 packages are no longer supported by Canonical but I may be 
able to get support from the "community" - or some words to this effect;

that there will be some 803MB(!) to be downloaded which will take about 
1 1/2 hours to do;

that 1240 packages will be upgraded; and

that all this will take possibly several hours...........

...........Do you want to Upgrade?


Well, what do you think?!

I will do a clean install tomorrow. All my most "can't do without" files 
(eg, Thunderbird, Mozilla, Documents..) are backed up - the rest in 
/home are all replaceable.

So, if you are thinking about upgrading or doing a clean install 
consider the above.

I guess the best way of doing it is to start the Update Manager and let 
it tell you what will happen and how long it will take to do an upgrade 
(and with, in my case, some 12 packages no longer supported, there will 
be debris sitting in your upgraded system).

BC

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