[TriLUG] No Ubuntu Updates?

[James Tuttle]

I use LVM on my laptop so that I can encrypt everything but /boot.

Jim

Alan Porter wrote:
>> 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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