cross upgrade

[BigAl-sa]

I'm looking for advice from those who have been down this road. I'm busy upgrading from 'ubuntu' 9.04 to 9.10, but have been a reasonably avid kubuntu fan. However, every upgrade I've done (since 7.04) I've had problems with screen drivers with kubuntu. I have two ubuntu pcs, and had no problems upgrading those. I'm looking for advice on cross upgrading my missus's pc from kubuntu to ubuntu (she must not feel too much of a swap).

The problem is her motherboard died and with the new motherboard, there's no sound. I rather want to upgrade before trying to fix the sound drivers.

 

[MyWorld]

Drivers are drivers and the new upgrade should detect what sound drivers are needed.

IMHO it will not be much of an upgrade, you will have to install the entire Gnome DE and very little KDE, so basically it is a fresh install since the DE takes up the most space in an installation.

Why not do an installation of Ubuntu but when you get to the partitioning specify your partitions as they are now, format only the / partition and leave /home alone, activate it so that the system uses it but do not format it.
You do have /home on a separate partition right?

 

[BigAl-sa]

You do have /home on a separate partition right?

Unfortunately, it's not home that's the problem, it's Vbox, wine, etc, that have to work without me sitting there for two days, while she wants to get into her leisure activities.

(I know what you're hinting, reinstall )

[edit]sorry very rude on my part: thanks for your response[/edit]

 

[MyWorld]

I have never tried this before, and by the lack of replies it seems like you are in uncharted waters here.

I also had some issues with gfx drivers on a Kubuntu update, I could not get the nvidia drivers installed no matter what I tried. After struggling for a while I just left it to focus on something else for a bit and a random Kubuntu update fixed the problem, so just leave it be for a while until the first couple of updates have completed ( a couple of hours I would say if you do not do it manually).

Also you can run that check to see if everything is healthy and upgraded as it should, can't remember what the app is called now.

 

[BigAl-sa]

What a day, I have an old notebook, which I put Ubuntu Karmic on last week, so I thought this would be a good one to test on. I first did a new install of Kubuntu 9.04 from the alternate CD, then applied the upgrade from the Ubuntu 9.10 alternate CD. What a painful process to get Ubuntu working (but it is now, almost - this is from that notebook under Ubuntu).

There was no problem running the upgrade, but the system still booted into Kubuntu 9.04, which didn't work at all with the new kernel. So back to command line. The big problem was getting

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

to install off the CD. It just refused. I eventually got it to work by running

sudo apt-get -f install

first.

Still some minor glitches such as the Kubuntu splash screen at the start of the boot sequence, and Kubuntu's rolling balls for the wait cursor, but I'll sort that out (Then I'll prolly reinstall Ubuntu 9.10 from scratch ).