Adding those repos is what caused your auto upgrade to take place.I did it intentionally and GOS worked fine.Only problems I had were with the boot and login screens being from Ubuntu.
On Nov 17, 4:14 pm, choban <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi mahjongg, > > I wish that my claim wasn't possible. However, I must admit to a > couple of things: > > 1) I added some Ubuntu URLs to my sources list. Here is a summary of > the content of sources.list.distUpgrade which I assume was a backed up > version of sources.list before the upgrade was performed. > > # deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 8.04.1 _Hardy Heron_ - Release i386 (20080702.1)]/ > hardy main restricted > # Seehttp://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotesfor how to upgrade > to > # newer versions of the distribution. > > debhttp://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/hardy main restricted > > debhttp://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/hardy-updates main restricted > > debhttp://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/hardy universe > debhttp://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/hardy-updates universe > > debhttp://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/hardy multiverse > debhttp://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/hardy-updates multiverse > > # deb-srchttp://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/hardy-backports main > restricted universe multiverse > > debhttp://archive.canonical.com/ubuntuhardy partner > # deb-srchttp://archive.canonical.com/ubuntuhardy partner > > debhttp://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntuhardy-security main restricted > debhttp://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntuhardy-security universe > debhttp://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntuhardy-security multiverse > deb mirror://www.getdeb.net/playdeb-mirror/hardy///hardy/ > debhttp://ppa.launchpad.net/googlegadgets/ubuntuhardy main > > 2) I exlusively used Synaptic to update my system because it offered > more packages. Maybe it's true that gOS 3.0's Update Manager would > never offer to upgrade distro but I haven't used it for ages. > > I hope this might explain few things but I can assure this really > happened to me, otherwise I would not waste my time writing this in > the first place. Thank you for your advice on setting up HOME on a > separate partition. I was not worried about losing documents but I was > more concerned of having to again set up and install all non-default > software that I added for my work. Now I understand there is no choice > and I'll have to pay somewhere for my missadventure. I'll stick with > gOS because I like it a lot and everything just worked on my Dell > Vostro laptop. > > Best regards, > choban > > P.S. This upgrade actually doesn't look too bad, after all. WBar > doesn't launch any applications and the top bar theme changed as well > as GDM but everything else seems to work. The gOS team should have no > trouble at all upgrading to the latest Ubuntu. Since the latest Ubuntu > is not an LTS distro, maybe gOS team could release a beta based on non- > LTS code so that fans can choose. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gOS Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/goslinux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
