[plug] ubuntu upgrade

[adrian at diskworld.com.au]

USB flash drives are so ridiculously cheep and suitably massive that they
make a good medium for doing test installs onto.

The other option is to install onto a virtual machine and play with it
first. VMWare, Virtualbox, Xen or KVM will all do an excellent job of this.
Both Hardy and Intrepid have kernels with VirtIO support, which will
provide near native network and block device speeds to guest systems.

Adrian 

On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:07:37 +0900, Mike Holland
<michael.holland at gmail.com> wrote:
> David Dartnall wrote:
> 
>> swung the decision towards upgrade, but it would have been good to get a

>> new clean system to play with - eh Richard?
> 
> I always keep two root partitions, and a /home. (and windows, swap)
> You could even your existing root to the spare partition, do an upgrade 
> install on that, and still have hardy-intrepid-windows choice on boot-up.
> 
> Don't assume intrepid will work as well as hardy yet.
> e.g. my laptop with external monitor is a mess. Was perfect in hardy.
> 
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