On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 01:06:30PM -0500, Adam Gouge wrote: > Hmm, I tried the upgrade on my laptop too and was having similar problems. > After downloading upgrades for several hours, the upgrade > abruptly stopped with corrupt packages. I had something like > 25 broken packages and was having trouble fixing them. I > eventually gave up and did a clean install. However, this > wasn't so bad, since I had already set up my partitions really > nicely. I have a 10GB partition for / (this is actually a > little too large -- 6 or 7 would still be more than I would > ever need), a 2GB partition for swap, and the rest is for > /home/adam/. That way, when I do a clean install, I keep home > and swap, and just install to that first partition. Then I can > keep all my files, as well as all the settings that are stored > in my home folder. When I booted up after a clean install, > ubuntu remembered by desktop background and several other > settings, such as keyboard shortcuts. It was amazing. The > only disadvantage is that I had to reinstall some applications. > However, Don Bindner has set up a local mirror for ubuntu > repositories. I can get speeds of over 10 Mb/s. I'm not sure > whether it is set up for feisty yet or not, but I know it will > be soon. So in short, if you eventually decide on doing a > clean install and haven't already partitioned your hard drive > like this, I highly recommend it. Since you still have a > terminal, you would still be able to backup your files. But as > far as an upgrade goes, I didn't have much luck. > > Adam
I am in the process up updating the Ubuntu mirror. For some reason it is having trouble, but I suppose heavy mirror use is part of the problem. I'll try to announce when things become current. If recent experience with Debian upgrades is anything to base things on, I've found it necessary to upgrade several times until all package problems were resolved. I usually use 'aptitude dist-upgrade' for my upgrades. Don't feel obligated to follow the first conflict resolution solution, sometimes other ones are more sensible. Usually I try to look at the solutions and see if there is some obscure package causing the problems that can be removed (often I don't use it anyway) manually. Then a dist-upgrade may go through without conflict. Don -- Don Bindner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----------------------------------------------------------------- To get off this list, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Subject: unsubscribe -----------------------------------------------------------------
