I did a fresh install the other night for a friend with a very old Acer laptop, it installed ok but it is effectively Ubuntu 10.10 Desktop without the Netbook launcher, I did get an error first time I logged on but didnt take a note of it.
On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 20:58 +0100, Rob Beard wrote: > On 12/10/10 15:11, Liam Proven wrote: > > > I did a fresh install on my Thinkpad X31 laptop, which went fine (but > > the netbook launcher is comprehensively broken on this hardware). > > > > You are really putting me off trying the upgrade on my desktop - but > > then, I planned to leave it a few weeks for the post-launch updates to > > accumulate, anyway... > > > > I'm just doing an upgrade at the moment (disabled any PPA's, changed > lucid entries to maverick in sources.list and then ran apt-get update > followed by apt-get dist-upgrade). > > It froze for a couple of minutes on Grub, it seemed to take at least 2 > or 3 minutes to find the kernels, at first I thought it had failed > (there was no disk activity), although I left it and it appears to be > okay, or at least it's finished configuring Grub and it's now asking me > what I want to do with my Samba config file. > > I'll report back when I'm done, if all else fails I guess I can > reinstall from a USB stick. > > Rob > -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
