Upgrade from 8.04 to 10.04 LTS (BORKED)

[Basil Chupin]

On 13/09/2010 15:56, Gilles Gravier wrote:
>   Hi!
>
> On 13/09/2010 02:03, Liam Proven wrote:
>    
>> On 12 September 2010 22:09,<clintin at linuxmail.org>  wrote:
>>      
>>> This is not an option as there is no space to available to this plus there
>>> is over 30 GB of stuff on this 40 GB drive.  I really needed the update to
>>> work and preserve all the settings on this system.
>>>        
>> Backup all your stuff, then boot from a live CD, mount the hard disk,
>> and delete everything on it except /home and its contents. Be careful
>> not to delete the /home folder.
>>
>> Ideally, then, so you don't have the problem again, shrink /home a bit
>> and make a separate filesystem, ideally before /home on the disk, for
>> / (the root filesystem). This is much preferable and now you've
>> experienced why.
>>
>> When you reinstall, tell the installer to use the /home volume for
>> /home and (VERY important) *NOT* to format it. It will pick up all
>> your existing settings and customisations - you'll just have to
>> reinstall any programs you've added by hand.
>>
>>      
> *IT CERTAINLY WON'T*
>
> Preserving /home keeps your existing USER settings and customizations.
> It *DOES NOT* keep things like applications, service configurations and
> so on.
>    
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> Doing what Liam suggest is NOT going to let you reinstall a fully
> configured system like that.
>    

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> 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).
>
> Gilles.
>    

But..but...but... Are you sure that what you state is correct?

After all, Laim is a well-known author of tech articles on The Register 
(http://www.theregister.co.uk/).

BC

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