[sf-lug] upgrade Ubuntu 12.04.x --> 14.04.x

[Michael Paoli]

I think you mean 14.04.x, rather than 14.01.

"keep all my files, preferences, etc." ... uhm, they way to do that would
be to *not* upgrade.  ;-)

Backup ... on-drive - and where it won't get overwritten - or elsewhere.
That's safest bet - and *always* a good idea to backup all data one actually
cares about (actually, backing up to somewhere else is safest bet, and
cover off-site backups and test the backups and restore procedure once
in a while).

These are the ISOs I have:
http://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:cds_and_images_etc
There's even a *fair* probability I may make it to SF-LUG this Sunday
... despite what BART is and isn't doing this coming weekend.

There are also probably other folks that have much more experience
upgrading Ubuntu, and could probably answer your questions regarding that
in more specific detail.

> From: "Jason Kirk" <jasonedwardkirk at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [sf-lug] SF-LUG Meeting on Sunday August 2, 2015 and  
> report of meeting of 2015-07-20
> Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 00:26:50 +0000

> Bobbie,
>
> Do you have a DVD that will upgrade my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS to 14.01 LTS and
> will keep all my files, preferences, etc. just as they were in my current
> 12.04 in the new 14.01 version?
>
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2015, 9:43 AM Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>    SF-LUG meets every first Sunday from 11 A.M. to 1 P.M.
>> and every third Monday from 6 P.M. to 8 P.M.
>> at the Cafe Enchante, 26th and Geary Boulevard.
>>
>>      These meetings are usually lightly attended with a high for the
>> year so far of 7 members.   If you have a problem come along
>> and maybe we can help but if not we can usually find someone
>> who can.
>>
>>      I hope to have a new Linux Pro magazine before the next meeting
>> and I already have about as many newer Linux distributions as I can
>> easily move around.  Let me know if you have some distribution(s) you
>> would like to try out.
>>
>>      Hope to see you at the Cafe Enchante about 11 AM Sunday August 2.
>>
>>      ==================================
>> Report of the meeting of Monday 20 July, 2015
>>
>>      about 5:30 PM I arrived at Cafe Enchate.
>> Mikki was waiting with her little Asus netbook.
>> I supplied her with a copy of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
>> which she and Jim S. had decided would be best
>> for her use.
>>
>>   6:15 PM Germãn showed up.  He will be returning to Chile shortly.
>> We talked briefly about  setting up a User Group where he lives.
>>
>> 6:16 PM Maestro came by and spent a lot of time reading online.
>>
>> 6:30 Jim walked in. We talked about a few things.
>>
>> 7:30 PM Mikki left.
>>      We spent some time in well wishing for Germãn
>>
>> 8 PM Germ?n, Jim and myself left.  Jim gave me a ride home.
>>
>>      So that was a very quiet meeting as might be expected in
>> the summer time.  I want to thank everyone who showed up.
>>
>>      Bobbie Sellers