Upgrading from Ultimate Edition 2.3 to Ultimate Edition 2.4 is it possible ?

[Trolden]

Hi im new here and im using Ultimate Edition 2.3 and love it. I just wants to know if its possible to upgrade from Ultimate Edition 2.3 to Ultimate Edition 2.4 or i need to make a clean install ? Its almost impossible to dl 2.4 (using link from distrowatch)
Thx very much for the best ditro (and OS) in the world.

[SharingG]

What i have been told in the past was back up the Home folder and do a clean install. You could just have a home partition and that would eliminate the need for a backup.

Some other users could get back to you with further details (if i can't answer) or better solutions.

[JOHNNYG]

Hi, Please use the advanced search fetcher of the forum there is already many posts addressing this issue .! Thanks

[Cell]

if you decide too rename,or delete your xorg.conf file if you have one.....or you probably will be booting into a black screen.

[DarkChild]

Hi im new here and im using Ultimate Edition 2.3 and love it. I just wants to know if its possible to upgrade from Ultimate Edition 2.3 to Ultimate Edition 2.4 or i need to make a clean install ? Its almost impossible to dl 2.4 (using link from distrowatch)
Thx very much for the best ditro (and OS) in the world.

As suggested by JOHNNYG, always try to use the search function before making a post as the problem/question that your having someone might have had the same issue and it was resolved.

As for your question, it is always recommended to do a clean installation. Please try and download Ultimate Edition 2.4 from the provided link below as it is much faster than distrowatch!!

Ultimate Edition 2.4 x64:
http://ultimateedition.unixheads.org/ultimate-edition-2.4-x64.iso

Ultimate Edition 2.4 x86:
http://ultimateedition.unixheads.org/ultimate-edition-2.4-x86.iso

[Trolden]

Im very sorry for posting this, i will be very careful next time i post something (if ever). When i search for upgrading from 2.3 to 2.4 i did not find anything about it but yes i could have search for upgrading in genrally. Im very sorry.

[DarkChild]

Im very sorry for posting this, i will be very careful next time i post something (if ever). When i search for upgrading from 2.3 to 2.4 i did not find anything about it but yes i could have search for upgrading in genrally. Im very sorry.

Don't feel said, we are not mad at you. Its just a protocol that we just wish that everyone could follow though with before posting. Thanks for your understanding.

[gtditeko]

Can anybody tell me how to install a java development kit on ultimate edition 2.3. I'm running it on a lenovo g550 notebook.

[bowbalitic]

Hello all, so my question is similar to the original posters.

I wanted to have Ultimate Edition Gamers edition but unfortunately the Ubuntu 9.10 installer came with the ability to automatically read raid drives... I don't have my drives in a raid setup but it insists that I do. I have 2 500 gb wd hd's set to IDE, and my mobo is M3A32-MVP Deluxe Series. I know its not my hard ware because I have found numerous forums where people are having the same problem. Unfortunately their only solution is to stay at 9.04 and either wait it out or update. But when I updated, Ultimate Edition didn't start up. Also, it removed about 160 packets...

So is there a way to update directly to the gamers edition or do I have to manually install those packets?? Can I update from the Gamers DVD??

And for those of you interested in the raid problem here's what I figured out...
They had all (some) of the packets installed to allow the installer to read raid setups and install Ubuntu 9.10 (Ultimate Edition 2.4) on them. Unfortunately, when I tried to install as raid it still never installed properly. (and there's many forums with this problem to) If I removed dmraid and libdmraid packets I could see my IDE drives but I still couldn't create partitions to them because they were "in use by the file-system".

Thanks for your help, I dont meant to hijack this forum but it kinda relates.

[jslick1jim]

Hello bowbalitic

It is not advised to up grade, but you can remove drive install it it than put other drive in. Thats what I did on laptop
I bought in march. and it works.