Upgrading to 15.04 beta

[Tommy Trussell]

On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 7:44 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 7 March 2015 at 12:52, Petter Adsen <petter at synth.no> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > How good is the "do-release-upgrade -d" process from 14.10 to 15.04
> > beta at this point? Is it somewhat "safe" to use, or should I rather
> > download the latest image and do a reinstall?
>
> I upgraded to 15.04 using that method last week with no problems.
> Either way you are testing, either the upgrade process or the
> re-installation.  It might be worth booting off a live image first
> however and just checking that it basically runs ok on your hardware.
>
> However, If you want to upgrade in place there is no need for a
> separate home partition.  When you install just make sure that you go
> into Something Else and choose not to partition the / partition.  Then
> it will leave /home as it is.
>
>
I don't remember which day it went "live" but sometime in the past couple
of weeks the BIG change in 15.04 was the switchover to systemd as the
default on new installs. I believe it's set so if you just do an upgrade,
upstart will remain the default. However if you do a clean install or
create a live image, the init system will be systemd.

I think most of the vitriol about the decision died down awhile back but it
IS a pretty big change so it's something to be aware of.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SystemdForUpstartUsers

I was a bit disoriented the other day when playing around with a Fedora
image and was surprised I couldn't find what I was looking for in
/var/log... but the Fedora people put a helpful note in there with some
clues.
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