[Charlug] Upgrading old Ubuntu

[Pierre Abbat]

On Friday 30 January 2009 04:33:33 Bob Evans wrote:
> I wouldn't put fiesty into your sources list unless absolutely
> necessary. and even then, I'd do that after the upgrade. again, read
> the sited URL...

I'm going to try commenting out the "us.archive feisty" lines and 
putting "us.archive gutsy" lines at the end. If I need a feisty package 
before the upgrade, it'll fetch it from the first repository that has it, 
right?

> can you download all the packages, and install them later?    of
> course. see any debian doc to verify. I would start with
> http://www.debian.org

The reason I ask is that I'm not familiar with the upgrade manager. The last 
time I upgraded, I think, I edited sources.list manually and ran "apt-get 
dist-upgrade". What I'd like to do is start the upgrade, download all the 
packages (during which I can still use the computer for normal tasks), log 
out of X (if I run the upgrade in a text console), and wait for it to finish 
installing.

> good luck. if you need help, stop by Levine campus / CPCC tomorrow. (10-2)

I'll be at church, and I'd rather not start the upgrade on a Friday lest I 
have a messed-up computer when the sun sets.

On Friday 30 January 2009 06:47:09 Leam Hall wrote:
> Bob's pretty much got it. Let me add a couple caveats from the
> enterprise side. First, if you haven't tested your ability to back-up
> and restore your database, you don't have a backup. Make this and
> application restoration a learning opportunity!

Main thing I'm concerned about with Postgres is that it changes its file 
format every so often.

Pierre