According to JM Ibanez: > > Pablo Manalastas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Tonight, I installed Ubuntu Feisty Fawn beta on my home desktop, and as > > soon as I rebooted, Feisty told me that there are 153 updates available. I > > installed all the updates, of course. I expect Feisty to keep telling me > > from time to > > time that there are more updates available. > > > > (1) If I install all of these updates, will I get my installation to > > be equivalent to the Feisty Fawn (release version) at about the > > release date? Or will I need to install Feisty Fawn (release version) > > over my beta installation? > > Yes. I've been following this track (more or less) since pre-Feisty -- > my laptop has been upgraded from Dapper to Feisty in this way.
Almost same here. Just this week, I reinstalled Breezy Badger with server option, i.e., what is also called ubuntu minimal. My objectives here were: a) not to include X stuff in the series of upgrade that I'd do and b) choose an X setup different from the DE bloats like Gnome and KDE. Then I upgraded to Dapper Drake, then to Edgy Eft, and then to Feisty Fawn Beta. No worries, I got a very fast DSL connection and the bandwidth for the previous versions was way, way faster. Only then did I install X stuff excluding Gnome and KDE. Not exactly excluding them, though. I had to install their base libraries since several of the apps I'd like to use depend on them, like XChat and ksnapshot. I did not install any display manager (loading a DM takes much from my machine's slowness) and installed IceWM. Now, I'm running a system that is more robust and faster than before. > > > > > (2) Is there a way of telling "Feisty i386-desktop CD beta" not to > > install grub? The install CD just went ahead and installed grub > > without asking me if I wanted it or not. > > I believe so, but I haven't run the latest installer yet. In previous > incarnations, the alternate CD had a text-mode installer which allowed > you to do that. The "install from live CD" option (the one that's used > right now) is for newbies and for general consumption -- the common case > would be to install grub anyway. I think it was a great decision by the Ubuntu developers to include the Live CD install option. And AFAIK, even the most recent versions' alternate CDs no longer prompt for grub install unless you have a /boot partition that also keeps boot stuff of other systems. Dong -- My Work: peace.net.ph My ICT Advocacy: linux.org.ph bukas.kom.ph dungkal.wordpress.com GPG Key: 0x1B42EEA6 Linux Registered User #317296 --- You will be honored for contributing your time and skill to a worthy cause. _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
