-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I have not upgraded to 7.10 yet, but I have a machine that did the in place aptitude dist-upgrade from dapper to edgy to feisty. I do not expect a huge problem with 7.10
Once my presentation is done I may be willing to try this on my laptop. Alastair Preston wrote: > 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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHHv3DwRXgH3rKGfMRAvhoAKCh+sH8Toc+DOjWeTNi/GiuZizPAwCgmoT8 QfmPh/N9B0xJ2DOv8AOC9bI= =dwJw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
