upgrading to fiesty

[John Schember]

I did an upgrade on my Notebook and Desktop. The notebook was a standard
install of Edgy with no changes. The Desktop was heavily modified but
with everything installed from a .deb package. Both upgrades went well.
The only issues with the desktop is the Qemu kernel module had to be
recompiled and Truecrypt hasn't been updated to work with Feisty yet.

In most cases I would recommend a fresh install but both systems
upgraded amazingly well. If you really don't want to have to worry you
could do
# dpkg -l > installed_packages.txt
# cp /home/<your user> /media/<another drive>
# cp /etc /media/<another drive>
do a fresh install, copy your home directory and any changed files from
etc and use the generated package list to install reinstall any non
standard packages.

John


On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 08:21 -0700, Josh Coffman wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>     Anyone have opinions on upgrading versus new install of fiesty? I normally just do an install, but then I have an hour of tweaks to get things where I want them.
> If some one can reassure me that an upgrade works, I might just try that for once.
> 
> thanks,
> -j
> 
> 
> 
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