[SlugLUG] Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft Released

[Peter Belew]

My total installation time was about 2 1/2 hours, counting fixing problems.

Peter

On 10/26/06, Peter Belew <abcruzww at gmail.com> wrote:
> Looks like this was recoverable.
>
> Among other things, I had to do
>
>   dpkg --recover -a
>
> and resolve some broken package dependencies, mainly involving
> removing acpid.
>
> Peter
>
> On 10/26/06, Peter Belew <abcruzww at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Looks like trying to install 6.10 on that system was a disasterous
> > mistake. Dozens of errors - files lost, X doesn't run.
> >
> > Good thing I tried the "upgrade" on a system that's not important!
> >
> > Peter
> >
> > On 10/26/06, Peter Belew <abcruzww at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I just started an upgrade to 6.10 on one of my systems. I noted
> > > the warning that 6.10 is not a long-time-support release, only
> > > 18 months. Also 3rd-party upgrades are initially turned off - you
> > > will have to go back and re-enable them and do an upgrade
> > > with apt-get or synaptic etc.
> > >
> > > The upgrade reminds you that upgrading with a 56k modem will
> > > take about 25 hours. :) No worry for me though!
> > >
> > > Peter
> > >
> > > On 10/26/06, Rohan Sheth <ronashet at ucsc.edu> wrote:
> > > > For anyone who isn't aware, that edgy eft thing came out and most people
> > > > are having fun with it.  just do a 'gksudo "update-manager -c"' and wait
> > > > an hour to upgrade.
> > > >
> > > > Also, Fedora Core 6 is out.  Although I haven't used fedora in quite
> > > > some time, I hear this new release sports a number of new packages and
> > > > is quite stable.
> > > >
> > > > --Rohan
> > > >
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