Hi Anthony, On Fr, 2009-10-02 at 12:51 -0700, ajmctaggart wrote: > I've seen few and far posts, mostly highlighting what didn't work so > well after Karmic was installed. I would really like to know, > overall, how is it going? Are you all happy with the upgrade from > Jaunty to Karmic? I am a bit apprehensive myself to dive right in, so > any insight you have would be very helpful. Right now my Vaio is my > work/school machine, and the weekend would be the only downtime I > could afford.
I have installed one partition with Windows Vista, one with Ubuntu Karmic and one with Ubuntu Jaunty. That way one will never have real downtime. Here how I partitioned my 200 GB harddisk: ~$ sudo fdisk /dev/sda -l Disk /dev/sda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x5c2fc21c Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 891 7151616 27 Unknown Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda2 * 891 13969 105049450+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda3 13970 14394 3413812+ 83 Linux /dev/sda4 14395 24321 79738627+ 5 Extended /dev/sda5 14395 18650 34186288+ 83 Linux /dev/sda6 18651 23270 37110118+ 83 Linux /dev/sda7 23271 24321 8442126 82 Linux swap / Solaris sda1 is the recovery partition for windows, sda2 is the pre installed Windows Vista. sda3 is formated as ext2 and is /boot from karmic sda5 is formated as ext4 and is / from karmic sda6 is formated as ext4 and is / from jaunty sda7 is swap for karmic or jaunty. The Bootloader boots on /dev/sda3 and the /boot/grub/menu.lst is manualy changed so that it has the entries for jaunty and windows as well.. Sounds a bit complicated maybe but if you are familiar with multi-boot installations its not difficult. When Karmic is booted, the partitions are mounted on: sda3 on /boot sda5 on / sda6 on /ubuntu/jaunty sda2 on /windows/recovery sda3 on /windows/vista When Jaunty is booted, the partitions are mounted on: sda6 on / sda3 on /ubuntu/karmic/boot sda5 on /ubuntu/karmic/root sda2 on /windows/recovery sda3 on /windows/vista The /boot dir from jaunty is not on an own partition (like in karmic). Then I have taken care, that the uid's are exactly the same on both installations thus I can use the home dir from Jaunty on Karmic and vice versa. From both Ubuntu installations I can read-write on the windows ntfs partitions. After a kernel-update in the Jaunty installation, I only have to add the new entry in the /boot/grub/menu.lst from karmic (because that one is the active boot-partition in my case) From my Jaunty installation that file is located here: /ubuntu/karmic/boot/grub/menu.lst If you don't want to go that way, feel free to simply upgrade to karmic, everything works great and you can get help from this list and the community is not limited to this list. Maybe it is not a bad idea to have a live DVD (or CD) that runs on your machine to enable access to some important files only for the case that the upgrade fails, does not boot or so but I do not expect that you'll get trouble. In fact, because everything works great, I mostly use Karmic and only very few Jaunty and Windows is practicaly not in use.. My advice: give karmic a try. Raphael
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