Upgrade from 8.04 to 10.04 LTS (BORKED)

[Liam Proven]

On 13 September 2010 08:04, Christopher Chan
<christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
>
>> I repeat, DO NOT expect Liam's instructions to let you reinstall a
>> machine that simply. You WILL have to reconfigure almost every single
>> service / application installed. Liam's instructions ONLY preserve USER
>> configuration settings (your desktop, your individual application
>> settings, and most of your documents that aren't shared).
>>
>
> Please remember to match up your uid/gid when you do your new install
> too before telling it to use your home filesystem.

Good point, but for a single-user system, it usually Just Works™.

If it doesn't, it's pretty easy to recover from. I have had to do it
quite a few times.

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