On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 6:32 AM, Mohan Sundaram <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 6:15 AM, A. Mani <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Prasanna Venkadesh <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I started this thread to seek any of them has got the same problem which > i > >> had, what is going on here? > > > > During the Kubuntu dist-upgrade earlier settings are preserved. > > During major updates of kde, users are prompted about keeping > > configuration settings. > > There is an option to boot 'earlier versions ' too in grub. > > > > What exactly did you do? > > Has anyone tried a fresh install of Natty on a Lucid/Maverick system > without formatting partitions and assigning the same mount points as > before? I've not been brave enough to try that though. > Not Natty but Maverick on an existing Lucid installation without formatting the partition. I did that when Maverick was released. > > Upgrade takes way too long as compared to fresh install. > > Questions is - Do existing apps works (if compatible) or do we have to > reinstall apps? I'm confident user data will stay on the home > partition without an issue. > There won't be any existing apps after you do the above procedure-I think only the home folder will be unaffected regardless of which partition it is on. That is how I remember it was when I did it. You will have to reinstall all apps -- Arvind S Raj _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
