On 22 October, 2007 22:31:31 David Brewerton wrote:
> Actually I finished the upgrade to 7.10 tonight. I had the system (PIII
> 733, 512MB RAM) downloading and installing overnight to do the main
> download then finished the install tonight. I needed the NVIDIA video
> driver that's not technically supported for the system. So far so good.
>
Good Luck; I'm having no end of troubles with it...
Machine 1: AMD 64X2 3600+ with 2 Gig RAM. Had Kubuntu 7.04. Tried the
online
distribution upgrade. Went through most of the process (nearly three hours)
then with about one or two minutes to go it aborted with an error about
missing files. After restarting, 7.10 launches and starts KDE, but, even
after I set the network parameters, (and succesfully ping my router and other
machines on our LAN) won't access the internet. It complains there is no
network device ( ifconfig says otherwise!). Also, System Settings crashes
immediately when I try to start it.
Machine 2: Sony Vaio Celeron 1.7 ghz 4 w/512Mb RAM; Multi boot setup:
WinXP
on hda, Kubuntu and Mandriva each have half of hdb. Tried to reinstall
K/Ubuntu 7.10 from CD. Neither Kubuntu nor Ubuntu will install fully - I can
run a command line session, but neither Gnome nor KDE seem to install
properly - I get errors about missing files and/or incorrect user permissions
in my /home directory. Kubuntu boot loader install recognizes XP partitions,
but NOT the presence of Mandriva. Ubuntu saw both, but set up the boot loader
incorrectly such that booting to Mandriva elicits a kernel panic. Had to
reload a bootloader from the Mandriva partition so I can run Mandriva ( my
wife needs it running when she wants to print something from her laptop via
our LAN - it's our only machine & distro on which printer sharing actually
works. I suspect I'm going to have to try a fully clean install, so I've been
backing up my /home and /usr/local directories. I'll probably have to do the
same with my primary machine as well.
Al Preston
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: bogi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 6:10:56 AM
> Subject: [clug-talk] Ubuntu 7.10 ... One Days to go
>
> http://www.ubuntulinux.org/
>
> Cheers
> Szemir
>
>
> P.S: It is one of the distros we will have available at COSSFEST
>
>
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