elysianfields44
June 28th, 2010, 06:28 PM
I have 8.04 and I could just upgrade through the update manager, but I remember reading somewhere that a fresh install is better than an upgrade. I am curious how that works (and what the differences are). I should note that I have two partitions ( / and /home) and my personal files and documents are on the /home partition. Is there a way to install 10.04 as a new install (not an upgrade) and tell it to use the old /home partition (ie not overwrite it with a new /home)? Also do people generally think it's a good idea to do an install from a cd instead of an upgrade through 8.04?
(On a related note, all software that I installed from source is located in /usr/local/src and ideally I would not want to overwrite that as well, but I'm guessing that since it's not on a separate partition that won't be possible?)
Thanks.
(On a related note, all software that I installed from source is located in /usr/local/src and ideally I would not want to overwrite that as well, but I'm guessing that since it's not on a separate partition that won't be possible?)
Thanks.