BetterSense
June 15th, 2008, 02:04 AM
I have a virtualbox installed on a machine that is still running an old Beta version of Hardy. It has 600 some available updates! I would just do a clean install with a disk, because it doesn't take very long, but I don't want to lose my virtualbox.
If I do a clean install (leaving home directory intact), could I possibly just reinstall virtualbox and have my virtual machine stay intact (hopefully the imporant stuff is stored in /home)?
If a clean install will splode my virtualbox, will apt-get upgrade bring me up to date with the current Hardy, or is the stable release effectively a new 'version' and I have to do something else (as if I was upgrading from Gutsy to Hardy)?
What are the chances of my computer sploding?:)
If I do a clean install (leaving home directory intact), could I possibly just reinstall virtualbox and have my virtual machine stay intact (hopefully the imporant stuff is stored in /home)?
If a clean install will splode my virtualbox, will apt-get upgrade bring me up to date with the current Hardy, or is the stable release effectively a new 'version' and I have to do something else (as if I was upgrading from Gutsy to Hardy)?
What are the chances of my computer sploding?:)