Wim Sturkenboom
December 14th, 2010, 11:24 PM
grumble grumble, moan moan
Did an online upgrade today from 8.04 to 10.04 and it went awfully wrong; the upgrade was done with errors (snmpd and snmptrapfmt) and I was warned that I possibly would end up with an unusable system; and indeed, system now falls back to busybox during boot, does not see the boot directory with ls but grub starts and shows the old menu.lst (I should probably not have confirmed to keep the existing menu.lst)
8.04 was an upgrade from 6.06
Backups were made of the home directories of the three main users; currently creating some extra backups of HD dedicated to photos as well as windows data partition to an external HD (the backups of those are scattered all over the house; stupid me). So no damage done there.
For the other occasional users (they have not used the system for at least three months) it's tough luck if they did not create backups.
Most important question:
I've created backups from within evolution. I assume that those are compatible with a possible newer version of evolution (using restore. Correct ?
Second question:
What's the best way to go? Just do a clean install and do not format the home partition? Any compatibility issues to be expected with newer versions of applications and older config files?
Or just do a clean install including formatting of the home partition and get it over and done with?
PS
The bad thing: consumed a big part of my bandwidth cap and wasted 8 hours.
The good thing: it could have been worse if I had to go looking for backups. Lesson learned; know where they are.
Did an online upgrade today from 8.04 to 10.04 and it went awfully wrong; the upgrade was done with errors (snmpd and snmptrapfmt) and I was warned that I possibly would end up with an unusable system; and indeed, system now falls back to busybox during boot, does not see the boot directory with ls but grub starts and shows the old menu.lst (I should probably not have confirmed to keep the existing menu.lst)
8.04 was an upgrade from 6.06
Backups were made of the home directories of the three main users; currently creating some extra backups of HD dedicated to photos as well as windows data partition to an external HD (the backups of those are scattered all over the house; stupid me). So no damage done there.
For the other occasional users (they have not used the system for at least three months) it's tough luck if they did not create backups.
Most important question:
I've created backups from within evolution. I assume that those are compatible with a possible newer version of evolution (using restore. Correct ?
Second question:
What's the best way to go? Just do a clean install and do not format the home partition? Any compatibility issues to be expected with newer versions of applications and older config files?
Or just do a clean install including formatting of the home partition and get it over and done with?
PS
The bad thing: consumed a big part of my bandwidth cap and wasted 8 hours.
The good thing: it could have been worse if I had to go looking for backups. Lesson learned; know where they are.