I'm no expert here, but I've asked this same question because we have four machines running 12.04 and one with 12.10. The answers and discussions that came about were consistent in their advice: Start with a clean install of 14.04.
Due to this advice, I'm going to leave our home and office machines as they are for as long as I can, since they are all working sweetly now and the thought of reinstalling all of the apps, programs, device drivers all over again is daunting, to say the least. Almost all of the various forum respondents to this concern seem to agree that the "recommended" step-by-step upgrades invites glitches with each step, and those glitches compound as you work your way up. Clean install sounds great when it's done, but who wants to go through that when your system is working just as it should be? Re: backups, HDD's are so cheap now that what I've been doing is to install a new one for the clean install. That way you are guaranteed a usable backup! Skip Skip Thomsen *The Modern Homestead Manual <http://www.homesteadinginfo.net>* *Affordable Hawaii Living <http://www.affordablehawaiiliving.com>* *Pandanus Designs <http://www.sonomastainedglass.com>*10522 Cozey Ct. Forestville, CA 95436 808.443.6208 ============================================================== Unanswered questions are far less dangerous than unquestioned answers.* <http://www.affordablehawaiiliving.com/>* On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Josh Berkus <j...@agliodbs.com> wrote: > All, > > So I have a Zenbook Prime running 12.10, which is EOL. I understand I'm > going to have to step it through upgrades to 13.04 and 13.10 to get it > to 14.04. > > Questions: > > a) is there a "least painful" way to do this? > > b) is there a good way to back up my entire HDD image so that I can > revert to 12.10 if things go south? > > -- > Josh Berkus > PostgreSQL Experts Inc. > http://pgexperts.com > > -- > Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list > Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca >
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