I'd recommend a fresh install really. Customise the iso a bit. There's also a dpkg command to save a list of everything you've got installed now and then you can work backwards from this text file and install only what you had (plus or minus package changes through versions). This saves time stripping out unnecessary stuff later on - but you may be keen to do this anyway since you're looking to keep your server nice and efficient. If i was to offer some really good advice, i'd say stick with 10.04 for now because it's very stable and runs a treat - compile a nice fresh custom 3.5/3.6 kernel for it though to take advantage of the mountain of changes to the kernel since lucid, with the added bonus of extra efficiency and minor cpu optimisations.
On 27/11/12 14:13, Paul Tansom wrote: > I have a server (i.e. no desktop software, X, or etc. - not that this > necessarily follows, but it does with me!)... > > ...anyway, this server is currently running Ubuntu 6.06LTS and I need to > upgrade to 12.04LTS. Clearly I have two options, either upgrade or reinstall. > Reinstall seems safer, bar the fact that there is some software that I would > need to disect the configuration of to reinstate (a backup using BoxBackup to > be precise); that points towards a step by step upgrade path (8.04, 10.04 and > 12.04), but I'm somewhat nervous of the number of possible gotchas present in > this. Has anyone done this and could comment? Did it go smoothly?! > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
