[TriLUG] No Ubuntu Updates?

Alan Porter porter at trilug.org
Wed Mar 5 14:31:21 EST 2008


> If I knew a good way to do it, I would reinstall Ubuntu from scratch

Up until 7.10, I could install fresh onto the existing root
partition and then move the old files over that I needed.

 - boot live CD
 - mount rootfs
 - move rootfs/* to rootfs/OLD/*
 - install new OS onto rootfs
 - start using new OS
 - recover old config files from /OLD as needed

But the new installer requires reformatting the root partition.  :-(
It's time for me to start playing with LVM (which requires the
alternate install CD anyway).  LVM always seemed like overkill
on my laptop, but it's starting to make more sense.

Alan





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