Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Least painful way to upgrade 12.10?

2014-06-18 Thread Mark Garrow
Except upgrading from 12.04 to 14.04 is one shot. You don't have to go through the various interim releases. One thing to remember, you have to uninstall nvidia graphic drivers prior to the upgrade. Best regards, Mark Garrow CalState Realty 760-300-3639 Calif DRE#01276379 Sent from Google Nexu

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Least painful way to upgrade 12.10?

2014-06-17 Thread Skip Thomsen
I'm no expert here, but I've asked this same question because we have four machines running 12.04 and one with 12.10. The answers and discussions that came about were consistent in their advice: Start with a clean install of 14.04. Due to this advice, I'm going to leave our home and office machin

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Least painful way to upgrade 12.10?

2014-06-17 Thread Akkana Peck
Josh Berkus wrote: > b) is there a good way to back up my entire HDD image so that I can > revert to 12.10 if things go south? Alex Mandel writes: > 2. move your home directory to a separate partition then you only have > to write over the / with the fresh install, home directory can stay in > pla

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Least painful way to upgrade 12.10?

2014-06-17 Thread Alex Mandel
On 06/17/2014 11:29 AM, Josh Berkus wrote: > All, > > So I have a Zenbook Prime running 12.10, which is EOL. I understand I'm > going to have to step it through upgrades to 13.04 and 13.10 to get it > to 14.04. > > Questions: > > a) is there a "least painful" way to do this? > > b) is there a

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Least painful way to upgrade 12.10?

2014-06-17 Thread Josh Berkus
All, So I have a Zenbook Prime running 12.10, which is EOL. I understand I'm going to have to step it through upgrades to 13.04 and 13.10 to get it to 14.04. Questions: a) is there a "least painful" way to do this? b) is there a good way to back up my entire HDD image so that I can revert to 1