Can I suggest that you put your /home (where you have all your work and play files) on a separate physical partition or indeed on a separate disk from the main os
I have my system set up like that and it doesn't matter what I do to bork the installation because all my personal files are safely elsewhere... Pete On 12/10/2007, Ted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Holloway wrote: > > Has anyone done it yet... i'm sooo tempted, and with RC being released > > today, i figure why not. > > > > But then i do have ALL my work and play on this machine. If I'm going to > > go through all the backing up etc when there might still be a problem... > > i might as well wait for 1 more week for the stable release!! > > > > Has anyone done the apt-get distupgrade to gutsy yet. In my experience, > > that method has worked well from 6.06-6.10 and 6.10-7.04, but it has > > failed miserably in the past! Any problems on it this time around? > > > > > > > I did it yesterday on my old box..Took about 4 hours to d/load and install > No errors at all.....Don't know why it took so long as I got rc1 this > morning > in 50 minutes.... > > -- > Regards > Ted Wager G3TPI > High Peak UK > Using Ubuntu Gutsy Linux > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ > -- 'In letters of gold, on a snow-white kite, I will write "I Love You!" And send it soaring high above you, for all to read!' RIP Billy M 1957-1997 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
