On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 22:09 -0700, Jerry Davis wrote:
> I have used linux for many years, and I have found that upgrades in place
> rarely work in the past.

I've had the opposite experience, for the most part... my main desktop
has been upgrading in-place since ubuntu 6.10 

> Has anyone done a upgrade in place using the Update Manager for ubuntu 9.10?
> Did it work?

On 3 of the 4 computer's I've done so far, the upgrade was flawless,
aside from the new firefox icon not automatically appearing. Of the
successful ones, 2 were AMD/nVidia-based desktops, both relatively new,
custom builds w/ Gigabyte mobos, and 1 was a Dell Inspiron 1545 w/
integrated Intel graphics. 

The computer that misbehaved slightly was my main desktop (which usually
misbehaves)... a slightly older (about 4-5 years now), but still custom
built, AMD/ATI box on an MSI mobo, with lots of extra hardware (webcam,
dual-head video, SB Audio deluxe sound card, Logitech G15 keyboard...).
The fglrx modules failed to build for the new kernel and I had to remove
them manually and replace them with the FOSS Radeon driver (which has
gotten a lot better since I last used it, imho), and the
flashplugin-installer broke, and I'm w/o flash atm because I haven't
bothered to fix it yet. Additionally after the first reboot X failed to
start automatically, and I had to login/startx myself. After the second
reboot though, everything worked as expected...just had to redo my
speaker config because I chose to overwrite the old pulseaudio
daemon.conf file during the upgrade. Other than that though, everything
seems to be working just fine.

> Or would it be better to just create a tarball of my home directory, save it
> off, download and burn the iso, and just do a full install?

I always back up the really important stuff anyway, but it's probably
not entirely needed anymore, unless you really want to. If you're
unsure/nervous though, just back everything up anyway and try the
upgrade. if it works, keep it and no harm done...if the upgrade doesn't
work like you want for whatever reason, do a fresh install and start
over.

Alternatively, you can always try downloading the alternate CD, and
upgrading from that. I usually do that for my laptops since I'm using
them on the go, and downloading the whole upgrade takes a pretty long
time. I didn't this time, but the last time I did with my old laptop
(which is still on 8.04 for an LTS-to-LTS upgrade test) it worked fine.

Hope that helps :)


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Andrew
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