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welshmike
July 31st, 2010, 03:37 PM
I've recently scrapped Windows XP from this vintage 1998 desktop that was set up for my house guests to use and did a clean 10.04 install. I runs really well on this vintage 1998 desktop which has 768MiB RAM and an AMD Athlon XP 1600+ processor.

9.10 has been installed on my 5 year old laptop successfully for a while and the Ubuntu Software Centre regularly reminds me that I can upgrade to 10.04. However I understand that such upgrade is done as an online download.

I have a 10.04 install CD and would like to know if I can upgrade my laptop from 9.10 using that. I do not want to install from scratch because although I can save and restore my home folder I do not want lose the installed drivers for my printer, scanner and wireless adapter, wherever Ubuntu may have installed them.

What does the team advise please?

TNT1
July 31st, 2010, 03:42 PM
I upgraded from 9.10 to 10.04 using the alternate cd... Everything went fine, didn't lose anything, everything worked perfect after the upgrade...

welshmike
July 31st, 2010, 03:52 PM
Thanks for your prompt reply.
Apologies but is the alternate CD you refer to different from the CD referred to here http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/download ?
If so where may I download it from please?

An afterthought:
If I have to download and burn the iso for the alternate CD I may as well do the upgrade online using the Ubuntu Software Centre.

TNT1
July 31st, 2010, 04:03 PM
I got mine from the one of the Africa servers here:
http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/alternative-download#alternate

TNT1
July 31st, 2010, 04:04 PM
Thanks for your prompt reply.


An afterthought:
If I have to download and burn the iso for the alternate CD I may as well do the upgrade online using the Ubuntu Software Centre.

Yip. That's what I'd do... I just used the alternate .iso, as I had 3 pc's to upgrade, and bandwidth in Africa is expensive...

dino99
July 31st, 2010, 04:05 PM
the simplest and easiest way is to dist-upgrade via software center or synaptic repo tab (change karmic by lucid, take care of outdated ppa if any)

snowpine
July 31st, 2010, 04:13 PM
the simplest and easiest way is to dist-upgrade via software center or synaptic repo tab (change karmic by lucid, take care of outdated ppa if any)

Not recommended!!!

See here for the supported methods: http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/upgrade

welshmike
August 1st, 2010, 02:37 PM
Thanks team.
This is what I found to help do the upgrade https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LucidUpgrades#Upgrading%20Using%20the%20Alternate% 20CD/DVD
It did take 2 hours though and I get a message at boot stating "disabling IRQ #18", there is no boot splash and boot is slower than 9.10.