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heldal
May 1st, 2012, 08:45 AM
I just did an upgrade from 10.10 to 12.04 (using the DVD image) and discovered that the system now offers an additional method to the previous choice between a chain of upgrades through all intermediate releases and a complete re-install. I was able to choose an "upgrade" that would preserve as much as possible of user data, system configuration and even try to replicate the list of installed packages. The procedure appears to be something half way between a traditional upgrade and a manual re-install with preservation of user file-systems.

Is this new upgrade-procedure documented somewhere?

I'd like to use the same procedure to perform a similar upgrade while at the same time move from a 32 to 64-bit system. Is that possible?

dino99
May 1st, 2012, 08:59 AM
to do something cleanly a fresh install from scratch is required

heldal
May 1st, 2012, 09:23 AM
to do something cleanly a fresh install from scratch is required

Did I make any particular claims about the cleanliness of such a procedure?

It does however seem to wipe everything other than user data so it can't be much worse than a fresh install.