Regarding upgrading from Dapper to Edgy, as per the informal poll on
http://ubuntuforums.org/poll.php?do=showresults&pollid=1099 about
1-in-5 people had "serious problems" and it "went really badly" for
about 1-in-4.
My upgrade was not too bad, but I also had tried to upgrade Kurtis'
computer and that was a series of problems ending with it failing
badly.
Installing from the Live CD, based on the reports I've been reading
(and me having used it on Kurtis' computer) works like a charm for
just about everyone who's tried it though, so it might be worth it for
most people to backup their home dir, do a clean install and then
replace the home dir.
CK
(hopefully Edgy -> Feisty will be less trouble :)
On 11/2/06, Dylan Griffiths <dylang@thock.com> wrote:
> Anyway, I had that setup with Dapper, but I wanted to see if upstart
> would help me, and I wanted to migrate forward because I know that Edgy
> is 2.6.17, and the new 2.6.18 (which uses a lot of the same features)
> has some RT patches that'd be useful for things like Stepmania at the
> same time as I am recording shows.
>
> Anyway, it took about 2 hours to download, and 30 minutes to upgrade the
> packages. It left me with a non-bootable system (yay!).
>
> They moved from the flavour-specific kernels in 6.06 to the generic
> kernel in 6.10, which is partially what blew up. A KNOWN, DOCUMENTED
> (as far back as March) BUG!!! I had to boot off of a 6.06 CD, choose
> system rescue, and run something like update-initramfs (which fixed up
> the initram disk image for the boot kernel).
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