How should one call a move from Ubuntu 9.04 to Ubuntu 9.10 as a new
install? The word "upgrade" seems reserved for the procedure of
replacing 9.04 files with 9.10 files. But in my case I wiped the drive
and reinstalled everything, then restored personal files from backup.
What is the term for this?

Thanks.

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Dotan Cohen wrote:
> How should one call a move from Ubuntu 9.04 to Ubuntu 9.10 as a new
> install? The word "upgrade" seems reserved for the procedure of
> replacing 9.04 files with 9.10 files. But in my case I wiped the drive
> and reinstalled everything, then restored personal files from backup.
> What is the term for this?
>
> Thanks.
>

Uhmm... Downgrading... (or Degrading?)
Seems that would be the best term... for lack of a better one.

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> Uhmm... * Downgrading... * (or Degrading?)
> Seems that would be the best term... * for lack of a better one.
>

I think that I was not clear. I changed my operating system from
version N to version N+1. However, I did not use the internal
"upgrade" function, rather, I wiped the drive and installed version
N+1 as a new install. I then restored user files from backup.


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--- On Wed, 11/4/09, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@gmail.com>
> Subject: How to call a move from 9.04 to 9.10 as a new install?
> To: "ubuntu-users." <ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2009, 5:56 AM
> How should one call a move from
> Ubuntu 9.04 to Ubuntu* 9.10 as a new
> install? The word "upgrade" seems reserved for the
> procedure of
> replacing 9.04 files with 9.10 files. But in my case I
> wiped the drive
> and reinstalled everything, then restored personal files
> from backup.
> What is the term for this?
>
>
If I'm understabding you correctly, that's what I call a fresh install with restoration of personal files from backup.

Leonard Chatagnier
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Dotan Cohen wrote (without attribution):
> > Uhmm... Downgrading... (or Degrading?)
> > Seems that would be the best term... for lack of a better one.
>
> I think that I was not clear. I changed my operating system from
> version N to version N+1. However, I did not use the internal
> "upgrade" function, rather, I wiped the drive and installed version
> N+1 as a new install. I then restored user files from backup.

I think you missed the point - some people think that 9.10 is worse than
9.04 and therefore they would consider it a downgrade.


Nils


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Dotan Cohen wrote:
> How should one call a move from Ubuntu 9.04 to Ubuntu 9.10 as a new
> install? The word "upgrade" seems reserved for the procedure of
> replacing 9.04 files with 9.10 files. But in my case I wiped the drive
> and reinstalled everything, then restored personal files from backup.
> What is the term for this?
>
> Thanks.
>

That's called a fresh install.


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