[plug] ubuntu upgrade

[David Dartnall]

Mike Holland 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.  

Mike, thanks for changing the subject line.
Your suggestion sounds good to me but the method would need a fair bit 
of amplification before I understood enough to attempt it. Maybe I've 
wasted enough of everyone's time already.
Regards
Dave D