Just a quick question?

[Steve509]

Is it safe to use the update from ubuntu 9.10 to 10.04? I have done this once before and it was terrible. There were just too many things that either didnt work or it was slow as heck. I then decided to just do a fresh install and 10.04 worked beautifully, but I recently wanted to install Mint 9 and wanted to write it over 9.10 since I didn't use it much after installing 10.04. but when I was in GParted, somehow I thought i had chosen the partition with 9.10, I wound up installing it over 10.04. So my question remains, if i just do the upgrade will it work like the fresh install??

Thanks for any views you guys have. Would love to hear from a lot of you.

Thanks

steve509

[techieMoe]

I generally do a fresh install out of principle. Like you, I've had numerous upgrade issues in the past and find a new install to be much cleaner in general. That's not to say an upgrade isn't possible or won't turn out just fine... I'd just personally advise against it.

[oz]

I too prefer fresh installs over upgrades. Backing up all data, a fresh installation, then restoring of any data as needed works quite well for me. In fact, most of my data stays on another partition or drive, so there is generally very little to backup before doing the fresh install in my case.

[rokytnji]

On my single boot I upgraded from Ubuntu 9.10 to 10.04 and my single boot AntiX 8.5 distro upgrades go ok to.

On My Multi boot gear. Fresh installs are the only way I go for me. All my installs have a separate /home partition though also except for the Puppy installs.

And you are correct. The graphical upgrader takes a long time.

[Dave68]

Still on Topic, but only a similar question. (Please don't shoot me)

I currently have Isadora Standard (GDE) on my PC, and dual booting Windows 7.

I want Wipe Isadora Standard, and Install the Isadora Xfce in it's place. From what I can gather, Mint installed on 477GB of my 1TB External, and left the other for Windows. (Standard Side by Side Install. I didn't want to jump into repartitioning with gparted at that time, let alone the Windows 7 Tools).

It wouldn't neccesarily be a bad thing to keep both Mint OSes, but I would rather just use one or the other. I don't use Windows 7 much, but I do use it and the install left the 80GB Internal alone and entirely to Windows 7 (from what I can see).

Any Words of Wisdom,
Dave