[colug-432] Install new version at / ?

Zach Villers zachvatwork at gmail.com
Wed Jun 11 12:45:37 EDT 2014


Not commenting on other's advice, but Mint does not recommend upgrading
without a complete reinstall. The community has a good tutorial written by
the project lead; http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/2


__________________


"do-release-upgrade" -- that's an Ubuntu-ism, but it might work on Linux
Mint.


On 06/09/2014 08:32 PM, Thomas Cranston wrote:
> I have an 80GB drive that is partitioned:
> /dev/sda1 /? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?  ext4
> /dev/sda4/home?  ext4
> dev/sda2/tmp? ? ? ? ?  ext4
>
> It has Linuxmint 14 on it now. I will be installing Linuxmint17. My
> understanding is that by having a seperate /dev/home, I can install
another
> linux distro while keeping my /dev/home and hopefully /dev/tmp.
>
> I am not sure how to do this. Will the installer guide me thru what I want
> to do?
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.colug.net/pipermail/colug-432/attachments/20140611/e01fb412/attachment.html 


More information about the colug-432 mailing list