Moving from Hardy

[Dave In Sidney]

Hi!

I'm currently running Hardy and plan on upgrading to Karmic until the next LTS comes out.

My current system has plenty of space on the "OS" partition and a separate data partition for /home. I plan on adding Karmic in a separate partition (repartitioning the current "OS" partition) and maintaining both for a while. As I wasn't crazy about KDE 4 under Hardy, so I *may* end up on Ubuntu Karmic instead of Kubuntu Karmic, but that will be a ways off.

Now the questions:
- Any obvious issues with this technique?
- Any gotchas?
- Other suggestions?

TIA,
Dave

[Teunis]

Re: Moving from Hardy

I've set aside two separate partitions for a second Kubuntu install with their own / and /home.
But;
~/.mozilla, ~/.thunderbird and a few other application configurations are linked from the oldest (8.04) to the newer (9.10)
The 8.04 /home is ext3 and the 9.10 is since I installed it ext4.

An other way would be to share the same /home between them, I few months ago I did this on my GF desktop when I upgraded it from 7.04 to 9.04.
Once I was happy with the 9.04 install I moved 7.04 down in grub, at some time I'll overwrite it for the next upgrade.

Both systems share their swap.

Oh yes, luckily KDE4.3 cannot be compared to KDE4.0 8)

[Dave In Sidney]

Re: Moving from Hardy

Sounds good! I was also wondering about any issues with GRUB2 and multiple distros, but it seems that wasn't a problem for you.

Thanx for the speedy reply!

[Teunis]

Re: Moving from Hardy

Please note I did an upgrade from 9.04 and was not confronted with grub2.

I wonder what it'll do to my quadruple boot (Vista, XP, 9.10 and 8.04) as I've become quite comfortable at manually editing the menu.lst file...

[Dave In Sidney]

Re: Moving from Hardy

Well, I was plannin' on waitin' a week or so before doing things to see what the issues were anyway; this just gives further impetus to that decision.