Upgrade from 8.04 to 10.04 LTS (BORKED)

[chris]

On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 07:43 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote:
> On Monday, September 13, 2010 06:00 AM, Derek Maciel wrote:
> > I've never been able to upgrade Ubuntu =(. So, I've learned that it's
> > a lot easier for me to instead install the new version from scratch on
> > another partition (but it's a lot easier on a new drive entirely), and
> > copy over the files I need to the upgraded install.
> >
> > I've tried to upgrade 8.04 to 8.10 and 8.10 to 9.10 and both of those
> > upgrades have failed for me.
> 
> I have not had these completely fail on me (did 8.04 -> 8.10 -> 9.04) 
> but I have stopped at 9.04...got the jitters with Karmic (9.10). LTS -> 
> LTS release should usually work fine though...
> 

They haven't for me, on three separate machines in different parts of
the country.  Every online upgrade borked,  generally with issues
involving  network manager, grub, firefox, and others that I did not
bother to triage. 

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Just my 2c's worth
Cheers the kiwi