Looking at the wiki on gos I found this: "Upgrade problem
When Ubuntu released version 8.04 ("Hardy Heron") on April 24, 2008,
it became apparent that gOS (versions before gOS 3.0 Gadgets) could no
longer use the update/upgrade facilities that Ubuntu offered. Any
attempt to upgrade any version of gOS before version 3.0 will either
fail with an "incompatible windows manager" error, or will remove all
kernels from the system, rendering the system bricked. Version 3.0 of
gOS solves the problem, as it is actually based on Ubuntu 8.04. And
steps have been taken by Good OS to ensure the problem will not happen
again. [35]"
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOS_(operating_system)
Using synaptic I was able to install the gnome based update manger and
it appears to work offering me 95 packages to update.
Since I would have to kill this install anyway and I'm multi-booting
several distros anyway I'm going to see how the update manager does-
but I won't let it remove any kernels. Let you know how it goes.
On Sep 25, 10:18 pm, mahjongg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> By the way, the new gOS 3 has a working updater, after installation I
> immediately got over 100 updates, all together over 100MB of stuff was
> updated.
>
> On 26 sep, 02:45, mahjongg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > It wont "upgrade" an older version, it just can be installed in it's
> > place, but you can install it as a "dual boot" next to an earlier
> > installed OS. Then you should be able to copy files over from the
> > older OS to the newer OS, and finally if you want to get rid of the
> > older OS, you can boot the live CD, and from it install the
> > partitioner "gparted", and run it to remove the older OSs partition,
> > and resize the newer OSs partition with the freed space, bit you have
> > to knwo what you are doing.
>
> > Otherwise its safer and easier to just burn the files you want to
> > rescue to a CD or DVD, or save them to a USB memory-stick.
>
> > On 25 sep, 17:21, aikidave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > When I upgrade to version 3 of gOS, is it going to overwrite
> > > everything on my hard drive? Do I need to copy all my files off before
> > > I upgrade?
> > > Will the version 3 gOS installer automatically remove the older,
> > > incompatible version of Ubuntu?
> > > I have one of the original Everex TC2502 PCs and am still running
> > > Version 1 of gOS.
> > > Thanks,
> > > Dave
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