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lilrayray69
April 24th, 2009, 05:35 PM
I have a laptop with dual boot Vista/ Ubuntu 8.10 and I somehow messed up the 8.10-9.04 upgrade and I'd really rather just start over fresh with 9.04 as my 8.10 was kinda messed up anyways...

So can anyone tell me the best/easiest way to go about doing this? I just want to remove 8.10 and put fresh 9.04 in it's place.

thanks!
shadowskyx
April 24th, 2009, 05:40 PM
Choosing to install 9.04 in the partition containing 8.10 during setup should do the trick. Take care to select just the 8.10 partition and not the whole disk!
mhh91
April 24th, 2009, 05:44 PM
you'll do as the previous poster said,that'll format the drive you're installing ubuntu on :)
lilrayray69
April 24th, 2009, 06:44 PM
oh i didn't realize it'd be that simple :P
so it'll just overwrite the current 8.10 installation then?

cool thanks

oh and can you put the .iso file on a flash drive and install it that way instead of burning a disk?
shadowskyx
April 25th, 2009, 12:26 PM
oh i didn't realize it'd be that simple :P
so it'll just overwrite the current 8.10 installation then?

cool thanks

oh and can you put the .iso file on a flash drive and install it that way instead of burning a disk?

Take a look here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick
lisati
April 25th, 2009, 12:28 PM
And don't forget to make a backup of data and settings that you might want to keep.
deathgaze
April 25th, 2009, 02:57 PM
Choosing to install 9.04 in the partition containing 8.10 during setup should do the trick. Take care to select just the 8.10 partition and not the whole disk!
hi, i'm having the same situation as lilrayray69.

my question is, how do i do it?
i can't select the 8.10 partition when i load the 9.04 installer.. (booted cd installer right after starting my laptop)

what i see are as follows (the space allocation bar in multi-colour thing); for custom:
<- ubuntu 8.10 (10gb) -><- windows xp pro -><- ubuntu 9.04 (2.04gb) -><- linux swap file (2.2gb) ->

or can this be done in wubi via windows xp?
because only my windows xp is in ntfs partition...

any help with images/ step by step guide will be great...
many thanks in advance..! =)

(am very new with ubuntu.. so, yeah.)