On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 01:33:48PM +0100, Simon Elliott wrote:
Barrys linux mail wrote:
Hi I am thinking of upgrading from 7.10 to 8.04 Lts, but not sure if it will work on my laptop which has 380 meg memory and Pent 3 processor, also when I upgraded from 7.06 to 7.10 it lost all the wireless wep settings. How do I avoid this this time if I upgrade? Has anyone upgraded yet? Also see that new version better with utube video, which seems to broken on my system know even though it did work. something to do with Adobe flash !
If I was you I'd consider Xubuntu for an all round faster Ubuntu experience.
http://xubuntu.org/ of course.. 8.04 is brilliant. Unfortunately the best way to get it is to do a fresh install, however if you backup your
Yes, I'd agree with that, I nearly always do a clean install when upgrading. Apart from anything else it loses all the various bits of junk you inevitably accumulate.
entire home directory including all the hidden folders, you will retain most if not all your settings. Not sure about wireless settings though.. Have a little Google around to find out where they're stored.
Depending on how the disk is partitioned (i.e. if /home is a separate partition) you may simply be able to upgrade the installation and retain /home. I'd still back it up though, it's very easy to confuse partitions at install time.
Wireless settings (and other similar system wide settings) will probably be in /etc, make a copy of that and then use information from the old one to configure the new one.