Comments on: Ubuntu Hits it Big; 9.04 â€˜Jaunty Jackalope’ Releases

By: Keshav

Keshav — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:39:32 +0000

Oh, so you mean the inbuilt partition manager in windows. I wont suggest you to delete your ubuntu partition from there. (I’d that once, and grub was screwed)

All I can advice is that you pop in your ubuntu cd, select manual mode while installing, choose the previous ubuntu 8.04 partition, select it and mark it for a format as ext4 and perform the installation on that same partition. The grub will be updated.

If you haven’t done this before, why dont you try the inbuilt upgrade mechanism in ubuntu. Install all the updates via the update manager and then select the update for the newer version. But I am not sure if it will download 8.10 first and then 9.04. So i think you can follow a reinstall via the cd.

By: Ashfame

Ashfame — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:21:33 +0000

I meant deleting the partition while in windows. I just saw that its 8.04 not 6.04 so I guess i just need to delete the partition and then install it. Will the boot manager entries (boot menu – Grub loader) be taken care of?

By: Keshav

Keshav — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:48:03 +0000

If you install the newer version 9 over your previous version, i mean just install it over the version 6 by formatting it’s partition, nothing will happen to your xp.
BTW, what do u mean by “partition in windows”?

By: Ashfame

Ashfame — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:55:49 +0000

@Keshav
Can I just delete my partition in windows and then install Ubuntu over it? I want to use the EXT4 file system.

By: Keshav

Keshav — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:09:58 +0000

@josh
Ubuntu 9.04 is already released. You can follow the links in the article to download it.

@ashish
I consulted with my linux advisor and this is what he says : If you install Ubuntu over the existing install by manually partitioning it should just replace GRUB. Windows will overwrite the boot manager, but Ubuntu will generally play nice.

By: Ashfame

Ashfame — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:18:39 +0000

I have downloaded it. Earlier setup of Ubuntu which I never used much is 6.04ver which I have in dual boot with Win XP. How can I switch to Ubuntu 9 without messing up with the boot manager. I am totally a noob to Linux. Any pointers?

By: How to Kill Ants - Josh

How to Kill Ants - Josh — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 14:33:29 +0000

Damn, now you just made me want to go install it after I uninstalled version 8 just a few ago!!

/thanks for the update though, I was wondering when this version would be released.

-Josh