Welcome Feisty Fawn
This evening I undertook the upgrade to Ubuntu 7.04. It went pretty smoothly. I started by using these steps for moving /home to a new partition. I learned something new in the process: when exiting Gnome using Ctrl+Alt+F1 all it takes to get back into Gnome is Ctrl+Alt+F7. I have been stuck a few times before because I didn’t know that and it is nice to realize now.
The next step was to insert the Fiesty CD I had burned and restart the system. My plan was to install fresh on a new partition and mount /home at the new partition I created for it. I was impressed that there were only 7 steps to the install and no interruptions after those 7. Ubuntu makes it easy to walk away for awhile once the file copying starts. Quite a contrast to Windows XP where one is constantly interrupted during the installation to ask for more input.
Because I have all kinds of hard drives and partitions I had to go through the manual install. Since I feel like I know what I’m doing in that area it was not hard. I did come across this bug in the installer though. I wasn’t trying to change the size of any partitions but it was a little scary because when editing a partition the New Size box had a value that was from a Free Space value on another partition. It was very strange. I didn’t change any of the numbers and they were ignored. I’m not sure what would have happened if I attempted to change them.
After booting into the new installation I realized that I had forgotten my plan to move one of my external hard drives to an eSATA connection rather than a USB connection. At this point I attempted to do this. The reason it matters is because as an eSATA connection the drive is /dev/sda instead of /dev/sdc. It comes before my two internal SATA drives. Upon reboot the drive wasn’t automounted and that was a bother. I looked in /etc/fstab and the file was using UUIDs to point to the drives. I decided to be lazy and just do a reinstall to fix the issue. It would give me a change to not automount all of the extra partitions I have on the computer as well.
So basically I restarted with the CD again and fixed my problems. I didn’t create mount points for all the partitions I didn’t want mounted and the eSATA drive came up as it should.
I’m happy.
Now just to make sure I have all the software I want.