Re: [orca-list] Considering switching from Mac

[Thomas Ward <thomasward1978 gmail com>]

Hi Dominique,

The same way you would upgrade any Ubuntu system. If you were running 
11.10 you could run update-manager, and it will tell you a new version 
of Ubuntu is available. From there its simply a case of following the 
dialogs to download and update Ubuntu 11.10 to 12.04. Since you are 
upgrading via an internet connection like this all your data etc in 
theory would be safe provided something didn't go wrong in the update 
process.

Basically, the only difference between a wubi install and a traditional 
Ubuntu install is that with wubi you installed the OS to a Windows swap 
file instead of a native Linux partition. It runs a bit slower, and you 
are limited to a 30 GB size limit, but in all other respects it works 
just like a natively installed version of Ubuntu.

Cheers!



On 4/29/2012 3:39 PM, Dominique wrote:
> Hi,
> How do I upgrade Ubuntu to Ubuntu12 with Wubi?
> Do I upgrade within the Linux bootup, or do I re install Wubi?
> What if I had data that I didn't want to loose?
> I don't have any right now, but just saying.