Help upgrading to 10.10

[Basil Chupin]

On 14/10/2010 20:39, Tom H wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 5:15 AM, Basil Chupin<blchupin at iinet.net.au>  wrote:
>    
>> On 14/10/2010 19:54, Tom H wrote:
>>      
>>> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 4:37 AM, Marius Gedminas<marius at pov.lt>    wrote:
>>>        
>>>> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:22:12PM -0400, Tom H wrote:
>>>>
>>>>          
>>>>> . Boot into recovery mode and choose netroot
>>>>>
>>>>> . Make sure that update-manager-core is installed
>>>>>
>>>>> . Make sure that you have "prompt=normal" in
>>>>> "/etc/update-manager/release-upgrades"
>>>>>
>>>>> . Run "do-release-upgrade --mode desktop" (I'm assuming that you are
>>>>> upgrading a desktop and not a server install)
>>>>>
>>>>>            
>>>> What does --mode desktop do, exactly?
>>>>
>>>> I upgraded my netbook from 10.04 to 10.10 using simply sudo
>>>> do-release-upgrade, without booting into recovery mode, and without
>>>> --mode desktop.  It seems to work fine.
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> I've answered the "--mode..." issue in reply to Jordon.
>>>
>>> Just because you like to live dangerously doesn't mean that I have to
>>> advise anyone to do so. I prefer to do important upgrades in
>>> single-user mode, especially if X and the DE are being upgraded.
>>>        
>> You know, all this is getting hairier and hairier.
>>
>> Why can't there be a STABLE or at least a well publicised way of doing
>> such things?
>>
>> I am not going over some of the responses to questions about how to
>> upgrade to 10.10 posted here over the past week.
>>
>> But, frankly, to a new comer (a 'newbie') the responses are simply
>> mind-boggling :'( .
>>      
> I don't see what your problem is.
>
> The OP asked how he could upgrade from 10.04 to 10.10 at the CLI and I answered.
>
> Jordon objected to some extra typing and Marius objected to being careful/unixy.
>    

And you don't see any problem with any of this?

A person, a newbie, just installed 10.04, say, last month and now wants 
to upgrade to 10.10 which is available.

What to do to go from 10.04 to 10.10?

"Oh, gosh, I had better ask questions in ubuntu-users to get any number 
of different replies on how to do it!"

"Ah! I now read that 'Jordon objected to some extra typing' and Marius 
'objected to being careful/unixy'. Gosh, that's most informative! 
(But.....what does "unixy" mean?).

How is s/he supposed to separate the chaff from the grain?

> That's it.
>    

That simple, eh?

Then why all the question recently about how to upgrade from earlier 
versions of Ubuntu to later versions - including upgrading to Maverick?

Just asking.....

BC

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