Hello People, Let me share my experiences upgrading to edgy from dapper. I started off with downloading alternative install cd. After 24 hrs of downloading with around six disconnections with my stupid 128 Kbps internet connection. I somehow managed to complete the download. Later I burnt image to CD. To my horror I found Checksum mismatch. I thought I will take chances and tried updating using cd rom upgrade option. After caching 80% of the files it gave me error. I think this is due to broken download. Now I dont want to re download it again. I copied all the .deb present in the CD to /var/cache/apt/archies/ folder. By default all are read-only, So, I gave 777 permissions to all the debs in the directory. (Not sure if its the correct thing to do But my R&D shows this method actually works). Now I edited to /etc/apt/sources.lst to replace all instances of dapper with edgy and saved. Then Typed in the following command as per official guide sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade. Two instances of dist upgrade is required for upstart to install. Now I crossed my fingers and rebooted the system to discover that my x server crashed. That system was having a via graphics chip. After little googling with txt browser elinks I managed to find the fix. I just did sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg . One its done I rebooted again. I could have simply typed startx command. But Just to make sure I rebooted and every thing seemed to work fine.. All my old programs updated with our any issues. So that system is up and running. Now its time to upgrade my friends system. This time I took the .deb files from /var/cache/apt/archies/ folder of already installed system and repeated the process. This time it even got better. No X server issues also, This one was using Intel graphics chip. Finally time to update my NVIDIA graphics card system. I repeated the same process. This time it had to download some Nvidia-glx and some machine specific files and upgrade went very smoothly. No issues once I rebooted. It even enabled Graphics acceleration which I enabled in dapper version.
Conclusions: 1. Best way to upgrade is to do a fresh install. 2. Use Bit torrent instead of download managers for better load balancing as well it will take care of checksum errors. And download the chunk that is corrupted due to network/ power outage. 3. Dont be afraid of recent posts about horrors of upgrading. Be little adventurous. 4. Many people say backup your important personal files. I dont see a reason to do it. At the most it will only screw up the x server or some device error. There is no way t can wipe out your hard disk. So, It is safe you continue with out backing up. Worst case you have to take out your disk and connect to some other running system and copy the files. 5. Is the Edgy is so bleeding edgy... I dont think so... 6. Observed little performance and GUI especially text display issues with Edgy. Suggestion: 1. Plan a weekend to do upgrade. 2. Dont panic its after all a computer. It is almost impossible to screw it up unless you intend to drop it from your balcony. 3. Please refrain from upgrade using dialup connection. (I have been trying from 2 days) 4. Have patience. Happy *bunting Raj --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 30 October 2006 02:12 AM, balvinder singh cobbled together > some glyphs to say: > Balvinder, > > sir i have managed to get the lan card working now...i > > simply switched over to a d link lan card costed around 300 box but it > > was worth it..was detected by ubuntu straight away...yar by the way i > > must tell u tht right now i happen to be using redat es version..but i > > got the earlier version of ubuntu i think tht was 5.16 from a magazine > > cd but could not boot with it??i have tried both the isolinux file ..i > > tried to put this file in boot of a cd but alas!! it does not > > boot..would iy make any difference if i already have a dual boot > > system...do u think tht the cd was not being detected cause i had dual > > boot or would tht not make any difference,,??? > > You don't need any special Isolinux file to boot from a bootable CD. It > should just boot. May be your CD is broken or you forgot to set the boot > device priority to the CD. Having a dual boot system makes to difference > to booting from a bootable CD. And I think you have 5.10 (there was > nothing called Ubuntu version 5.16). I guess you can ask somebody who > lives close to you to give you a Ubuntu 6.06 CD. Check > http://ubuntu-in.org/wiki/CDRequest and see if there is anybody with > Ubuntu CDs close to where you live. Else you can always download a copy > from http://ubuntu.com/download/ or order a CD free of charge from > http://shipit.ubuntu.com/ > > > Do let me know if there are some other ways tht we > > have to burn the cd to make it bootable..and one last thing..do we have > > an option of defragmentation in ubuntu..by any means.??and i have joined > > the community but dont know how to log into it..cause the link tht u > > sent me only shows from where we can create a login id..but thts now > > done,,,now where do i login from?please help.. > > When you get the CD image, just burn it as a image and not a file. Else > it will not work. I don't know how to do that on Windows(TM) as I don't > use that. There is no need or facility for de-fragmentation on Ubuntu as > the file-systems used by the Linux kernel are journalling file systems > and they rarely have fragmentation that's not fixed automatically (say > around 2% in 12 years). Well, the link I sent you was for joining our > mailing list. The instructions on the page clearly say that ``To post a > message to all the list members, send email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED]'', and that's all you need to do. So next > time instead of mailing me personally, send an email to > [email protected] provided you have joined already. > > Regards, > BG > > - -- > Baishampayan Ghose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Ubuntu -- Linux for Human Beings > http://www.ubuntu.com/ > > 1024D/86361B74 > BB2C E244 15AD 05C5 523A 90E7 4249 3494 8636 1B74 > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFFRZEYQkk0lIY2G3QRArseAKDBN7WiUCezr1tQAu8Ov1+SRwfOQACeLFX5 > 9RXdwVQr+w7dXywWD/DkHIY= > =inZN > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in ____________________________________________________________________________________ Want to start your own business? Learn how on Yahoo! Small Business (http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com) -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
