upgrade preperations

[Pia]

If you have an LTS to LTS upgrade actually work, please report back and 
let us know.  I have been adminning about 150 Ubuntu boxen at work here 
for 3 years and have never had an LTS to LTS upgrade go smoothly.  If you 
read the docs for Lucid Beta 1 it seems to imply, if you read between the 
lines, that such an upgrade would only work for servers but not for 
anything with a GUI.  I think your best bet would be to make a back up of 
your root partition so that it is recent and then do a fresh install, 
recovering anything from your fresh back up of your root partition that 
you might need.  I personally tend to install a lot of customized programs 
locally and so my partition scheme includes 4 partitions if you include 
swap, the others being / and /usr/local and /home  That way, I only blow 
away / when doing an upgrade and my locally installed programs don't get 
bothered.

HTH,

Pia

On Tue, 23 Mar 2010, aerospace1028 at hotmail.com wrote:

> Greetings,
> I am in the process of making my plan to upgrade to lucid when it is
> officially released in April.  I am currently using Ubuntu 8.04 LTS and I
> want to make sure everything is set for the transition to go as smooth as
> possible.
> 
> Some potentially useful background:  I'm using a laptop: duel-booting Ubuntu
> and Windows XP.  I HAVE Ubuntu split over two partitions (One for / and one
> for /home).  I maintain regular (monthly) backups of my rootsystem and home
> directories (each partition gets its own backup).  under the settings for
> software sources and preferences (found under the administration menu of the
> top pannel: I don't recall the exact name), I currently have my system set
> to only upgrade to LTS versions of Ubuntu.
> 
> (A) configuration files?
> Will my settings in configuration files (I.E. those found in /etc/) remain
> preserved across the upgrade?  Also will anything I added to ~.bashrc be
> preserved as well?  Or will I need to re-tweek these files upon upgrade.
> 
> (B) custom-builds?
> I built the git editions of orca, at-spi and atk for the gnome-2.22 system. 
> Will apt-get dist-upgrade automatically replace these with the default
> versions for lucid, or should I uninstall the git-builds and re-install the
> repository versions?
> 
> (C) best upgrade method?
> I've been switching from apt-get to aptitude for my package-management uses,
> but from reading the documentation in man, it looks like apt-get
> dist-upgrade is the recommended method for upgrading distribution releases
> from the command-line: is this correct?
> 
> (D) anything else?
> Are there any other concerns I should be looking at?  Useful tidbits to keep
> in mind?
> 
> Thank you in advance for your assistance:-)
> I look forward to getting caught back up with the linux community.
> 
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