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pawanh
May 16th, 2010, 04:56 AM
I use a Karmic Koala and I want to upgrade to Lucid Lynx. All the packages are up to date. So if I upgrade online, how much data download am I looking at? I have a sufficiently fast connection, but I have a limit on the data that I can download. Is it less than downloading a Lucid Lynx CD? Can I get an exact figure somehow?

byStanderone
May 16th, 2010, 07:36 AM
...if you have spare partition, would suggest that you do a fresh install of lucid rather that an upgrade, but if you should push thru with your upgrade...do a backup of your important files.

pawanh
May 17th, 2010, 08:46 AM
...if you have spare partition, would suggest that you do a fresh install of lucid rather that an upgrade, but if you should push thru with your upgrade...do a backup of your important files.
Why? Is Lucid unstable? Or is it upgrading that is unreliable?

P.S. I've separate partitions for /home and /usr.