Re: Upgrading 12.04 to 13.04

2013-03-13 Thread Thomas Corwin
Thank you everyone. I only used he term "upgrading" because I am using the Windows installer "wubi.exe" to use Ubuntu 12.04.2 (which by the way, there are so many graphical errors, it's not even funny). I will try to use what Scott suggested, and upgrade to 12.10 and then 13.04. I wanted to up

Re: Upgrading 12.04 to 13.04

2013-03-13 Thread Nicholas Skaggs
On 03/13/2013 03:03 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: On Wednesday, March 13, 2013 10:21:18 PM Ali Linx wrote: 2- If you don't have /home partition, you will lose your settings, etc (someone please correct me if I'm mistaken). You are mistaken. I have systems that have been upgraded to 12.04 from as

Re: Upgrading 12.04 to 13.04

2013-03-13 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Wednesday, March 13, 2013 10:21:18 PM Ali Linx wrote: > > 2- If you don't have /home partition, you will lose your settings, etc > > (someone please correct me if I'm mistaken). > > > > > > You are mistaken. > > I have systems that have been upgraded to 12.04 from as far back as 7.10. > > Ther

Re: Upgrading 12.04 to 13.04

2013-03-13 Thread Ali Linx (amjjawad)
> 2- If you don't have /home partition, you will lose your settings, etc > (someone please correct me if I'm mistaken). > You are mistaken. > I have systems that have been upgraded to 12.04 from as far back as 7.10. > There's really almost never a reason to reinstall. Hmm, then are you saying t

Re: Upgrading 12.04 to 13.04

2013-03-13 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Wednesday, March 13, 2013 05:50:12 PM Ali Linx wrote: ... > 2- If you don't have /home partition, you will lose your settings, etc > (someone please correct me if I'm mistaken). ... You are mistaken. I have systems that have been upgraded to 12.04 from as far back as 7.10. There's really alm

Re: Upgrading 12.04 to 13.04

2013-03-13 Thread Ali Linx (amjjawad)
Hello Thomas, Thanks for your email :) First thing first, you need to understand the difference between "upgrading" and "installing" new version. A simple google search will reveal lots of links which everyone actually need to have a look at. At least, to have some basic understanding :) I can d

Re: Upgrading 12.04 to 13.04

2013-03-12 Thread Scott Kitterman
There's no supported way to upgrade directly from 12.04 to 13.04. You have to upgrade to 12.10 first. The way to do it from a terminal is: sudo do-release-upgrade upgrade to 12.10 sudo do-release-upgrade -d that will upgrade you to raring (what's to be 13.04). Scott k On Tuesday, March 12,