Thanks Anurag for your feedback and suggestions. So far I installed it on 4 machines. I dont see any major issues. Except the a creative Webcam everything seemed to detect and work out of the box. Even the Wireless card/media keys/card reader on HP laptop seems to work fine. I also feel the best way to upgrade is dist-upgrade with little hassle. But its a single step process to keep all your existing settings. and upgrade to latest versions of your existing programs. You may encounter minor problems if you tweaked your system too much for custom kernels and go away from std repos.
Thanks Raj --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi RajaSekhar, > > On 10/30/06, RajaSekhar Yeruva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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). > > ``$ chmod a+r *.deb'' should have worked. There's no point giving > execute permissions to dead non-executable files. Even giving write > permission makes no difference. > > > 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. > > Cool! that's the way to keep fighting it out :) > > > > One its done I rebooted again. I could have simply > > typed startx command. > > no, you could have typed ``sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart'' > > > Conclusions: > > 1. Best way to upgrade is to do a fresh install. > > If you are doing a fresh install then that cannot be called an > upgrade. Debian's apt provides powerful mechanism of dist-upgrades and > we should try using it only. It saves lot of time if you have several > packages already installed on the system. Though yes, one has to be > ready for some adventures :) > > > 4. Many people say backup your important personal > > files. I don't see a reason to do it. At the most it > > will only screw up the x server or some device error. > > I dont quite agree with it. If you have data and if it means something > to you, then just take a backup without giving false justifications to > oneself. > > > There is no way t can wipe out your hard disk. So, It > > is safe you continue with out backing up. Worst case > > I remember a friend of mine managed to erase his entire home directory > while compiling kde packages. i cannot emphasise more. > > > Suggestion: > > 1. Plan a weekend to do upgrade. > > Not necessarily, I upgraded 4 machines in 5 hours by setting up a > local ``apt-cacher'' server :) > > > -- > Anurag <http://www.gnuer.org> > > -- > 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
