[TriLUG] Updating Ubuntu

[Dave Sorenson]

I have a second drive installed for all my data.  /home is on it as well 
as my MySQL data files and a copy of /etc

When I upgrade , all I have to do is reset the mount point for home and 
I have the modified /etc files to refer to to get all the accounts and 
services restored.
 This has worked well for 3 different upgrades.

Dave

Kevin Hunter wrote:
> At 10:51a -0400 on Wed, 13 Aug 2008, Carl Crider wrote:
>   
>>  My updates through the "7 series" had a couple of hiccups with drivers. The
>> last jump from
>> 7 to 8 on my laptop worked out just fine. I do a backup of everything before
>> any of these updates though ... better safe than sorry. IMO, If I was going
>> from 6.10, I'd do a backup and use a fresh installation.
>>     
>
> Second that on the "7 series".  Also, as 6.10 to 7.04 took me close to
> 13 hours doing the in-place upgrade, I've since been just backing up my
> /home dirs and doing a fresh install.  This means I have to reinstall
> certain applications again, but this also is a good way of clearing out
> the stuff I no longer need but installed for one-off gigs.  If I need
> it, it's easy to sudo apt-get install, or to trawl through synaptic.
>
> Caution that this way means you also lose any modifications you made in
> /etc, or anything else you installed not in /home.  (Like removing the
> pcspkr kernel module from loading!)
>
> Olson also brings up a good point about third party apps.
>
> Kevin
>