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Upgrading to Ubuntu Edgy Eft

Edgy Eft is out. Although I stopped major upgarding my linux installs somewhere around RedHat 6.0, retried with Mandrake 8.0 to never come back to it, Oooops, I did it again.

How did the other upgrades then work ? . Well, so so. One had to count on rough edges, a lot of manual changes after the install and over time, the best strategy prooved to make a new partition clean, install a fresh copy of the new version and 'migrate' one's home. That extends the set of setting one inclines to, for example, keeping home on an extra partition, to be able to experiment with the systems and homes etc. When software gets updated, things do not always work well.

It might sound natural to keep the same home with the same settings while and after migrating but one has to realize that major version changes may not use compatible configuration files, so and upgrade with the old home may hurt a lot. (your config files get broken by the new version and the old version does not understand them)

Other part of the strategy to migrate from one verision to another is to travel light. Make only absolutely needed changes in your enviroment -- in one's case it is setting up 15 shortcuts for 6 desktops (change to desktop and send window to desktop), Minimize, Maximize and Shade window. That's it. If one is able to set the shortcuts anywhere and quickly saving config -- at least for UI part -- does not matter so much.

 Or, one can ignore all the above and give a test to updating Ubuntu. To make the boring story short, it worked well. If I expected any fantastic performance boost ? Hey, I upgraded the system, not the hardware. All worked as expected, so I did not boot X, because my drive is under control of Solaris 10's GRUB, so I had to make some small modifications to its' menu.lst under /boot (I think).

Those two grubs -- Ubuntu's and Solaris 10's -- are a bit different, so I had to tweak the startup params, but if you install Solaris 10 on your HD (or basically *any* other OS) that's a thing to count with.

So, unlike many others, I found upgrading to Edgy Eft a big SUCCESS. Thanks to everyone who made it possible

Posted at 10:09AM Nov 20, 2006 by bs31 in Personal  |  Comments[0]