How safe is the upgrade from 7.04 to 7.10?

[Liam Proven]

On 11/03/2008, Mario Vukelic <mario.vukelic at dantian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 15:02 +0000, Liam Proven wrote:
>  > I have a fairly hacked-about with 7.04 system. I have nonstandard
>  > apps, like Pidgin from getdeb.net. I used Automatix to get multimedia
>  > support. Stuff like that.
>  >
>  > It's showing its age. When I boot, it drops into a bash shell as it
>  > starts the init process, saying that the error is that apt-get is not
>  > installed. I can't use ^d to exit this, but if I type "exit" and hit
>  > Return it continues booting normally. Yesterday, my 2nd monitor
>  > stopped working, and occasionally, the PC has started freezing.
>
>
> I'd say you'll be much better off reinstalling anyway, if the machine is
>  so broken. Create a tar file of /etc, /home, and of any valuable data
>  elsewhere on another disk, reinstall, and then selectively untar back
>  what you need.

The /home FS is in a partition of its own, naturally. /etc sounds like
taking a chance with preserving iffy settings, no?

>   If you have some time, you might want for 8.4 anyway,
>  it's a little more than a month away if everything works out fine.

I have been considering that, I must admit... But aren't upgrades
meant to be done one version at a time?

>  Btw, Automatix is largely obsolete now, and the authors plan to
>  integrate remaining functionality properly:
>  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Automatix/Ubuntu_Team_Collaboration

[Nod] I know. I regret doing it now but at the time it seemed like the
easiest way.

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