Hey there coolaj!
On Sunday 15 June 2008 03:59, AJ ONeal wrote: (((((Thanks x 10) x 10) x 10) x 10) x 10)! and welcome back from albania. I'm sure you must have some stories from that experience! Any blog URL's? And what are you doing up at 3-4AM? I though everyone in UT was getting up around that time:) Anyhow, good hearing from you and thanks for the pointers. > http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/ > http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/ > > You have to use the Alternate CD to perform an upgrade Edgy Eft Alternate > http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/edgy/ubuntu-6.10-alternate-i386.iso > gksu sh /cdrom/cdromupgrade Have to d/l 700M worth of what, a customized edgy release? Just to upgrade to a higher release? what does above cd do? Since its not f,g or h? Does it just all the updating needed prior to upgrading? And was this a cheap alternative to having to maintain archive.ubuntu.com/dists/edgy And, since i'm ranting: love the choices - the 'Desktop CD' is a bare workstation but with the UI/Desktop apps and the 'Server CD' has no WM? Why they cant go the RH route and let one choose all from one CD is beyond me. Or am i missing something, feature-wise? My whole reason for asking for a CD was that i'm maxing out on my 17Gb FAP and my ISP has a 30-day rolling-window; meaning that if i exceed it, i go into dial-up speeds for longer than i care to be. > > You're probably best off to get a list of your currently installed software, > back up /etc and /home and do a fresh install of hardy. I don't know if I > could recommend upgrading to hardy, but a certainly can recommend backing up > and doing a fresh install. I try to be able and ready to 'blow away' a basic installed partition at any time, but where that almost always works for me on a server, its not as easy on my development workstation, where i've got a lot more 'stuff' in play. What i build myself always goes to /opt or /usr/local and I always keep /home on a different fs and ln-s /home/root->/root as well, since i keep a lot of stuff under it as well. 'bunutu makes such a soft-link hell of /etc, so i presume you mean backing it up w/out following links, per se; which is easy enough for config files and such. I'd imagine some /lib/firmware and /lib/kernel/modules might need rebuilding. What about all the perl modules installed using cpan, or ruby stuff installed using gem? Sadly, a lot of the python programs i've installed come w/little control over how/where they get installed as well. So i can see that skipping f-n-g and clean installing h will mean rebuilding a fair amount of apps. Oh well. > > I've got a script here that installs the medibuntu repo, google repo, apps > that boost inter-system (windows) compatibility and a small number of other > useful things: > http://twdp.hobby-site.org/pub/ubuntu/media-ubuntu.sh How do you like m'buntu? How does it stack up to g or h? TIA, Rion > > > > -- > > email: rion_at_dluz.com > > web: http://dluz.com/Rion/ > > AIM/Jabber/Google: riondluz > > Phone: 802.644.2255 > > http://www.linkedin.com/pub/6/126/769 > > echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc This will help you for 99.9% of your problems ... "I hope to die ___ _____ before I *have* to use Microsoft Word.", 0--,| /OOOOOOO\ Donald E. Knuth, 02-Oct-2001 in Tuebingen. <_/ / /OOOOOOOOOOO\ \ \/OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO\ \ OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO|// \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ // / \\ \ ^^^^^ ^^^^^
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