Need help upgrading from Edgy to Hardy

[JimS]

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I have Edgy on my old Dell and I would really like to upgrade to Hardy.
Question is will I lose my email files and address book?
I have a seperate home partition and that has my pics, docs, and music,
which I can save to DVDs.
My bookmark are saved in Foxmarks.
But where are my email files and address book?

Your help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

JimS
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[herteljt]

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I have Edgy on my old Dell and I would really like to upgrade to Hardy.
Question is will I lose my email files and address book?
I have a seperate home partition and that has my pics, docs, and music,
which I can save to DVDs.
My bookmark are saved in Foxmarks.
But where are my email files and address book?

Your help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

JimS
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Hi Jim,

I don't believe you will lose any of your settings. I have upgraded from 7.04 to 7.10 to 8.04 and have had no issue with files, bookmarks or email addresses. In fact I've installed multiple version of Ubuntu and mapped them all to the same home partition and whenever I do something in one version (send an email, update a link, bookmark a page) the settings are changed in the other version as well.

I have done all of my upgrading through update manager.

[Sef]

I don't think it is possible to update from Edgy Eft now as their repositories are closed due to the fact that it is no longer supported.

If not, you have to do a clean install, which will wipe out all of your current settings.

[JimS]

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Thanks for the info.

I tried Upgrade Mgr and it failed.
It wanted to upgrade to Feisty 7.04.
There was no other choose.
I had clicked "CUpgrade" and Got msg:

"Error during update

A problem occured during the update. This is usually some sort of network problem, please check your network connection and retry."

My network works. Email works. Firefox works.

In the recent past I've also had trouble recently trying
to install new programs.
I'm assuming that Edgy may no longer be supported.

Do you think that I'll need install using the Hardy CD?
If so, how will I be able to save my emails and address book?

This whole thing should be a simple "walk in the park", but
when I updated from Dapper to Edgy, I lost stuff.

JimS
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[Sef]

I'm assuming that Edgy may no longer be supported.


Edgy support was dropped in April 2008.


This whole thing should be a simple "walk in the park", but
when I updated from Dapper to Edgy, I lost stuff.


That can happen with an upgrade.


Do you think that I'll need install using the Hardy CD?


Yes. Hardy has Long Term Support, so it will be support on the desktop for 3 years instead of 18 months.

[JimS]

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Sef
I think you're right.
My box certainly acts that way.
I guess it is important to keep current.
Edgy run well, but I can't install programs.
JimS
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[JimS]

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Just wondering before I trundle off to bed -
My hard drive has 40G unused space.
Could I simple install Hardy there and
use the same Home partition as Edgy and
perhaps see my email setting, files, addresses, etc???
I assume Grub can handle it.
Just a thought.
Now off to bed.

Tomorrow is my birthday.
Ubuntu wrote me "Happy Birthday" today!
One son also called - one day early!
I'll be 70 and I know when my birthday is.
Well I better get - before it is tomorrow.

JimS
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[Sef]

Just wondering before I trundle off to bed -
My hard drive has 40G unused space.
Could I simple install Hardy there and
use the same Home partition as Edgy and
perhaps see my email setting, files, addresses, etc???

Yes, you could install Hardy there, but I would make its partition 8 - 10 GB.