[SlugLUG] Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft Released

[Peter Belew]

I think there was a hardware problem toward the end of the installation -
the system froze and had to be restarted. So the problems after that
are probably due to some missing files. It was possible to recover,
but basically it took another hour.

Peter

On 10/26/06, Rohan Sheth <ronashet at ucsc.edu> wrote:
> Mine was as straightforward as possible.  Just ran update manager, let
> it hang out for an hour.  Came back to reboot and everything was just
> dandy.  They replaced the i686 kernel with a "-generic" kernel.
> Weird...
>
> --Rohan
>
> On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 20:22 -0700, Peter Belew wrote:
> > 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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