Upgrading from 10.04.1 to Maverick 10.10

[Karl Larsen]

On 10/10/2010 10:45 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
> 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
>
>    
     Your experience tells me why I NEVER upgrade. I had a similar thing 
happen on an earlier version and it was confusing and slow and I had 
some problems to solve when it was done. So I now load any new version 
into a new partition like you did. Works fast and the result works.

73 Karl


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