upgrade to 12.04 LTS vs fresh install questions

[Liam Proven]

On 20 October 2012 23:25, Linda <haniganwork at earthlink.net> wrote:
> I have several machines that I can upgrade from 10.04 LTS or just do a fresh
> install to move to 12.04 LTS.  In making my decission on whether to bother
> trying to upgrade to the new version I was looking for opinions on two
> questions?
>
> 1. the 10.04 LTS have ext3 filesystems, is it worth the extra effort to do
> clean install and format the drives with ext4 file systems?
>
> 2. Some of these machines do not have network manager on them for 10.04 LTS
> as all the network configuration was done by hand. I did a trial update on a
> machine I had replaced with a new one and the upgrade to 12.04 LTS installs
> network-manager but  it gives an error that it is incompatible with the
> current version.  I removed network manager but you can no longer create a
> resolv.conf by hand as it rewrites it at boot. I tried installing
> gnome-network-admin to set the dns nameservers but it still losses the
> nameservers on reboot. Would installing network-manager on the 10.04 LTS
> machines before upgrade eliminate this issue?

My personal opinion would be - no, it's not worth reformatting to
ext4, but in this instance, it might well be worth reinstalling the
newer LTS if you have the time & the inclination, especially given the
network-manager problems.


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