Upgrade from 8.04 to 10.04 LTS (BORKED)

[Ric Moore]

On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 08:38 -0700, NoOp wrote:

> > You seem to be missing the rather important detail that the OP *tried*
> > to do an in-place install and it has failed to complete. A second
> > attempt is even less likely to work.
> 
> Unless I've missed a post, you seem to be missing the fact that the OP
> tried to do an *upgrade*. He then restored it to 8.04: "I had taken an
> image before starting and restored it sothis computer is back to 8.04
> LTS and I didn't loose anything".
> 
> > 
> > The *reason* for doing a wipe-and-reinstall is that config files (or
> > something) are causing problems with an in-place upgrade. The
> > *benefit* of a wipe-and-reinstall is that it *gets rid* of all the
> > config files and mabnual customisations and resets you back to a clean
> > sheet, as it were.
> 
> Blink.

I have to agree that a complete install gets rid of the cruft. If the OP
has backups of his important stuff, then no problem when some upgrade,
trying to happen via the half-broken net, is borked and he has to resort
to a full install. Let's face it, there is more message traffic
generated by upgrades than clean installs. 

For a clean install, you ~plan~ on losing everything and adjust your
thinking towards good backups, rather than hoping and praying that the
update will work without a single hiccup or some other unforeseen
disaster. 

Since this is an imperfect world I prefer to blow it all up, ~all by
myself~, with a clean install. I think it's actually a lot faster to do
and I have never had to toss the crying towel into the ring. I keep /opt
on a separate partition and back up all of my important files to there.
Then I'm damn careful about what I restore. 

I'm still shell shocked from losing the IRQ jumpers on my various cards
and line numbers from Basic. Plus N Play ruined my safe little world.
So, I know and acknowledge I'm an idiot and have been successful by just
going along with the plan ...that the devels actually know far more than
I do, when they do a new release. 

A fresh install puts their new config files in place, not what I think
~ought~ to fly from my CP/M mentality. It's the "Box fulla chocolates"
approach, which works for the mentally creaking, ignorant and borderline
stupid like me, as opposed to the chicken-foot approach where you wave
the chicken-foot and pray to the Big Chicken that all I have to do is
press the red button.  

I should write for The Reg. I'd give them all Hell ...starting with the
reboot to fix it notion. I miss just doing run levels and maintaining my
uptime. <cackles> :) Ric

-- 
My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say:
"There are two Great Sins in the world...
..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad.
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