On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 18:51:37 -0400 Stephen <stephen-d@rogers.com> wrote:
I have been running Ubuntu for over a decade. Always did Internet upgrades.
But the last one, to 12.04 broke my PHP and the only solution I have found is to do a clean install.
I have /home on a separate drive so I expect that this is not a big deal. But I think a few of you might be able to offer a tips.
The system will be a desktop and also a LAMP server. I plan to install the desktop and then add the AMP.
I will back up the databases using mysqldump, save the Apache .conf files as well as fstab.
Anything else I should consider? Thanks
-- Stephen
Stephen, This is how I upgrade my Fedora machines. Everything on /home stays intact because I don't reformat it. I can switch to Ubuntu if I want. I don't have application data on my root partition. If I did, I would back it up regularly, and before doing a re-install. My /etc directory is backed up weekly, automatically. I document my install procedure. I post this on my website to encourage other Linux users, but my original purpose was to be able to it again, later. -- Howard Gibson hgibson@eol.ca howard.gibson@teledyneoptech.com jhowardgibson@gmail.com http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson