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jmmk6
February 20th, 2009, 05:43 PM
Can a dual boot system with Win Xp on primary drive & 8.04 on secondary drive be upgraded to 8.10 without repartitioning or reformatting & retaining dual boot option ability?

taurus
February 20th, 2009, 05:44 PM
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading

jmmk6
February 22nd, 2009, 06:41 PM
Thanks for the reply, but please be more specific as to where or what to look for when I follow the link provided.

cariboo
February 22nd, 2009, 07:44 PM
Start with the instructions at the top of the page and work your way through each step. If you follow the instructions exactly, you will do a sucessful upgrade. There is no need to repartition.

Jim

Pumalite
February 22nd, 2009, 07:51 PM
Don't forget to remove all third parties from your /etc/apt/sources.list, including the Medibuntu Folder if you have one.
After you do that; you can also use this:

sudo sed -i 's/hardy/intrepid/' /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

jmmk6
February 23rd, 2009, 02:09 PM
Start with the instructions at the top of the page and work your way through each step. If you follow the instructions exactly, you will do a sucessful upgrade. There is no need to repartition.

Jim
First try did not work for some reason. 2nd try worked - thanks to cariboo907 & taurus