AZinOH
January 23rd, 2010, 02:46 PM
Jaunty now, Lynx later
I am currently dual-booting Vista/Ubuntu 9.04 (32-bit) on a 2008 Dell Inspiron 530 (single hard drive). The goal is to eventually replace 9.04 with 10.04, probably 2-3 months after it is released. I am not an experienced user of either OS, and would have difficulty if I managed to somehow screw up GRUB and/or the Windows partition. Based on my current (lack of) knowledge and what I've read so far, the best hope of a clean install would be to replace 9.04 with 10.04 on /dev/sda5. Will doing this rewrite the existing GRUB and preserve Vista in the bootloader as it is now with a minimum of grief? Can this question even be answered now? I hoped someone using a 10.04 pre-release might have some input.
The other alternative would be to install 9.10 using the button in the Update Manager, and use the same method to get to 10.04 later on. What are the pros/cons of this method? I have no preference-I will use either method (or apt-get, if necessary). I just want to accomplish the change in the safest way possible without screwing anything up too seriously.
Will I need to login as root to accomplish the change? If yes-how, as I have never done that?
Thanks for any assistance.
I am currently dual-booting Vista/Ubuntu 9.04 (32-bit) on a 2008 Dell Inspiron 530 (single hard drive). The goal is to eventually replace 9.04 with 10.04, probably 2-3 months after it is released. I am not an experienced user of either OS, and would have difficulty if I managed to somehow screw up GRUB and/or the Windows partition. Based on my current (lack of) knowledge and what I've read so far, the best hope of a clean install would be to replace 9.04 with 10.04 on /dev/sda5. Will doing this rewrite the existing GRUB and preserve Vista in the bootloader as it is now with a minimum of grief? Can this question even be answered now? I hoped someone using a 10.04 pre-release might have some input.
The other alternative would be to install 9.10 using the button in the Update Manager, and use the same method to get to 10.04 later on. What are the pros/cons of this method? I have no preference-I will use either method (or apt-get, if necessary). I just want to accomplish the change in the safest way possible without screwing anything up too seriously.
Will I need to login as root to accomplish the change? If yes-how, as I have never done that?
Thanks for any assistance.