Upgrading Kubuntu Feisty Fawn to Hardy Heron
I'm thinking of upgrading the Kubuntu on my PC from Feisty Fawn to Hardy Heron, is there anything special I have to consider?
2008/5/7 Glyn Webster glyn@wave.co.nz:
I'm thinking of upgrading the Kubuntu on my PC from Feisty Fawn to Hardy Heron, is there anything special I have to consider?
The upgrade process took a loooong time here. I'd consider backing up your home directory and doing a fresh install instead.
Bruce Kingsbury wrote:
2008/5/7 Glyn Webster <glyn@wave.co.nz mailto:glyn@wave.co.nz>:
I'm thinking of upgrading the Kubuntu on my PC from Feisty Fawn to Hardy Heron, is there anything special I have to consider?The upgrade process took a loooong time here. I'd consider backing up your home directory and doing a fresh install instead.
A version upgrade I did from Gutsy downloaded 800MB - whether that is less than you getting the 700MB iso and what ever other updates on top of that I'm not sure.
Regardless of what method you choose, back up /home (including hidden files/folder) and any data you have other places to another machine or disk first, because you never know when something might go wrong. Except that it is more likely when you have no backup . . .
Cheers, Roger
Another thing to consider
I thought to upgrade from Feisty to Hardy you'd have to upgrade to Gusty as an intermediate. That could be a lot of downloading.
I'd make copies of home and etc and anything you else you've customised and do a fresh install.
2008/5/7 Roger Searle roger@stepahead.org.nz:
Bruce Kingsbury wrote:
2008/5/7 Glyn Webster <glyn@wave.co.nz mailto:glyn@wave.co.nz>:
I'm thinking of upgrading the Kubuntu on my PC from Feisty Fawn to Hardy Heron, is there anything special I have to consider?The upgrade process took a loooong time here. I'd consider backing up your home directory and doing a fresh install instead.
A version upgrade I did from Gutsy downloaded 800MB - whether that is less than you getting the 700MB iso and what ever other updates on top of that I'm not sure.
Regardless of what method you choose, back up /home (including hidden files/folder) and any data you have other places to another machine or disk first, because you never know when something might go wrong. Except that it is more likely when you have no backup . . .
Cheers, Roger
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2008/5/7 Chris O'Halloran cmoman@gmail.com:
Another thing to consider
I thought to upgrade from Feisty to Hardy you'd have to upgrade to Gusty as an intermediate. That could be a lot of downloading.
That too..
If you upgrade with the alternative CD it saves a lot of downloading, but in my case it wasn't the downloading that took all the time, applying the packages took something like three hours and it stopped quite often to ask about replacing config files. a huge pita.
If you upgrade with the alternative CD it saves a lot of downloading, but in my case it wasn't the downloading that took all the time, applying the packages took something like three hours and it stopped quite often to ask about replacing config files. a huge pita.
I didnt' find the upgrade too bad. In my case the download took probably longer than the installation. And yes, if you've fiddled around with the config files, it pays off having the /etc directory backed up that you can investigate what the upgrade reverted back to the defaults (like X-Windows forwarding through ssh, enabling the shorewall firewall, alsa parameters, etc).
I wasn't too happy with the Hardy Heron release, since it broke my Palm synchronization (see bug report #226197 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/226197), which I rely on heavily. Another strange thing that happened, all my terminals (the ones that you get via Ctrl+Alt+F1-6) were completely white. Wasn't very helpful while I was playing around with my xorg.conf to get TV-Out working - had to login remotely from another computer. In the meantime, I've installed Gutsy Gibbon again an am happy again - only problem is that sound doesn't work after hibnerating, but I can live with that as long as my Palm works. ;-) If the Palm issue gets resolved, I might look into upgrading again. Possibly in half a year or so...
Cheers, Peter
On Wed, 07 May 2008 3:26 pm Peter Reutemann wrote:
If you upgrade with the alternative CD it saves a lot of downloading, but in my case it wasn't the downloading that took all the time, applying the packages took something like three hours and it stopped quite often to ask about replacing config files. a huge pita.
I didnt' find the upgrade too bad. In my case the download took probably longer than the installation. And yes, if you've fiddled around with the config files, it pays off having the /etc directory backed up that you can investigate what the upgrade reverted back to the defaults (like X-Windows forwarding through ssh, enabling the shorewall firewall, alsa parameters, etc).
Thank you, all. I'm backing everything I can think of up now, it sounds like it's best to reinstall. (I'm going to have keep up with upgrades from now on!)
2008/5/7 Glyn Webster glyn@wave.co.nz:
Thank you, all. I'm backing everything I can think of up now, it sounds like it's best to reinstall. (I'm going to have keep up with upgrades from now on!)
As I've said before, I prefer install to upgrade. Have just done an install on a new computer (64bit AMD) ... seems to confirm there might be problems with nVidia video drivers. In this particular case, couldn't get resolution any better than 800 x 600, regardless of using proprietary drivers or standard drivers.
Michael
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Glyn Webster glyn@wave.co.nz wrote:
I'm thinking of upgrading the Kubuntu on my PC from Feisty Fawn to Hardy Heron, is there anything special I have to consider?
You need to read this: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/UpgradeFromOldVersion
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