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EthioJOB
April 18th, 2014, 07:01 PM
Hi,

I have a Toshiba P55 A5200 laptop with Ubuntu 13.10. I've created a separate encrypted home folder. Also, I had to use boot-repair a short while after I installed it alongside Windows 8.

My question is what suggestions do you have to upgrade to 14.04? Should I use the update manager? Should I download the iso image file and upgrade from there? Should I use a clean install, and if so how do I deal with the encryption of the home folder? Can I simply copy my data on an external hard disk and copy them back after I've finished the installation?

Thanks in advance!

mvs1207
April 19th, 2014, 01:55 AM
You can upgrade using update manger for simple and easy upgrade experience. That's I have been doing every update since early days of ubuntu. I do have full disk encryption and with the lvm I created two different partition one for root and other one for home.

If you do try a clean install, the installer should be able to figure out your encrypted partition and ask you for appropriate passpharse and mount point durning installation.

EthioJOB
April 20th, 2014, 07:15 PM
I've heard stories about update manager and it is discouraging. What can you say about that? Also, can I download and burn it to a DVD and upgrade it from there? I'll probably have trouble getting a clean connection till the whole 900 GB loads and upgrade online.

gdesilva
April 21st, 2014, 03:04 AM
Perhaps I should not say this here...but I always do a clean install. This avoids all the potential heartaches and also gets you to clean up your own data! Just a personal preference.

monkeybrain20122
April 21st, 2014, 03:08 AM
Boot-repair doesn't work with 14.04 right now. Why the rush to trade in your working system for something just out of beta? I would wait for at least a month.

+1 to clean install.

EthioJOB
April 22nd, 2014, 12:21 PM
13.10 is a little buggy for me. Besides I prefer to stick to the LTS versions, and so far they seem to be less buggy. I guess it is true that they are more stable than the in-between releases.

I get that a clean install is a commonly preferred option, but how will it affect the encryption of my home folder and the bootloader, which as I said is repaired by boot-repair?

Topsiho
April 22nd, 2014, 01:07 PM
The other day I did an upgrade from 13.10 to 14.04 LTS (Lubuntu, but I think Ubuntu is not different here) on a desktop and a netbook, choosing the uppermost choice during the install (I forgot the exact phrasing, something like replacing 13.10 for 14.04, which was what I wanted). All went perfect, all by myself installed applications were upgraded too. So ... :)

No experience with encrypted files, though.

Topsiho

John Jason Jordan
April 22nd, 2014, 04:20 PM
The other day I did an upgrade from 13.10 to 14.04 LTS (Lubuntu, but I think Ubuntu is not different here) on a desktop and a netbook, choosing the uppermost choice during the install (I forgot the exact phrasing, something like replacing 13.10 for 14.04, which was what I wanted). All went perfect, all by myself installed applications were upgraded too.Topsiho

I tried to do this with Xubuntu using the install DVD, but the topmost choice (upgrade 13.10 to 14.04) was grayed out. I still haven't upgraded because I don't have a stable net connection.

Danger_Monkey
April 22nd, 2014, 10:29 PM
I was able to upgrade my old Thinkpad, 2 Dell 1950 servers and an Hp Pavillion from 13.10 to 14.04 without issue. Only one had a lot of software on it, Nagios, Cacti, MRTG and NTOP. All the versions were ahead of the repositories. I expected problems, but it all went smoothly and all the software continued to work.

EthioJOB
May 14th, 2014, 12:16 PM
Ok, after thinking about it for a while I'm leaning towards clean install because one, I don't think I can find a reliable connection that can stay till the whole 1 GB is downloaded and installed, and two, some problem with the software center has come up, and I'm in no mood to tinker right now. So how do I go about this?

My main concern is that I've encrypted my home folder. I guess can simply format and install on the root installation while leaving the home folder, but won't the encryption refuse the OS access?

kc1di
May 14th, 2014, 12:55 PM
As # 2 said the installer should find your encrypted home folder and ask for your password. I prefer clean installs also. just less headaches. you may have to redo some of your setting so backup everything important just in case.
Good luck :)

EthioJOB
May 31st, 2014, 10:24 PM
Hi,

Finally I got the time to upgrade, but while setting up for upgrade I got these options.

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(Sorry I wasn't able to post the image full-size, but if you right-click and open in a new tab on it should open full-size)

I didn't expect these options, so I wanted to understand what each would entail before I proceed, especially how it would affect the Windows partition (I want it left intact).