Ok, I am a couple days late, but I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.10, Inrepid Ibex today. Actually, I did one spare computer with the Edubuntu add-ons that is eventually going to my niece and nephew, added it to my Acer laptop using WUBI so I can use Ubuntu or Windows, and then did a fresh install on my Acer desktop. Been a busy day.
Since I did a fresh install, that means there’s a LOT of stuff I have to redo. The reason I chose to do a fresh install is that I have two hard drives in this computer, a 300GB and a 500GB. The 500GB I haven’t really used for anything. The 300GB had partitions from both version 8.04 and 7.10. So I figure I would put 8.10 on the 500GB drive, and once I’ve copied all my old stuff over that I need to keep, I’ll repartition the 300GB back in to one drive. And yes, I did back all the stuff in my Home folder up first.
In fact, if you want to do a basic backup of a folder, rsync is pretty much the best way to go. I may write up something basic about it at some point, but the point of this posting is some of the steps I’m going through as I put stuff back on this desktop computer.
