[plug] ubuntu upgrade

[Mike Holland]

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.