[PLUG] upgrade from 11.04 to 12.04

Ronald Chmara ronabop at gmail.com
Wed Jan 16 04:32:56 UTC 2013


On Jan 15, 2013 8:15 PM, "John Jason Jordan" <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 13:37:54 -0800
> Denis Heidtmann <denis.heidtmann at gmail.com> dijo:
>
> >Thanks to both of you.  I will likely take what appears at this point
> >to be the easier route (upgrade), hoping that it will not prove more
> >difficult in the long run.
>
> One good point in favor of upgrading is that, if it goes horribly wrong
> and you have a system too messed up to fix, you can just turn around
> and do a fresh install. In other words, you might as well try an
> upgrade, because there is nothing lost in doing so.
>
> But one caution: Be very sure that nothing happens to your net
> connection during the upgrade. Ubuntu downloads the new packages and
> installs them as it does so. If you lose the net connection in the
> middle you will have a partially upgraded operating system.
>

During my 12.10 upgrade, my wireless died. Hard wire if you can.
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