Will it be my 6th successful dist-upgrade between the lappie and the desktop? Tune in and find out. :shock: :lol:
Been running Dapper for nearly a year now. :shock:
Report in two hours...if you dont hear from me, Ive crashed and burned. :lol:
Quote from: maximusotterWill it be my 6th successful dist-upgrade between the lappie and the desktop? Tune in and find out. :shock: :lol:
Been running Dapper for nearly a year now. :shock:
Report in two hours...if you dont hear from me, Ive crashed and burned. :lol:
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO dont do it! I just lost my installation the other day doing this...it just stopped halfway through...stayed frozen for hours, so in the end I had to force a reset. That was the last time I saw my beloved Dapper desktop :(
Pah, a reinstall aint the biggest deal in the world if you have a separate /home partition. ;) Wont happen to me, because Im the luckiest Ubuntu upgrading bastewarde in the worlde. :D
Hah, packages are d/led and being installed atm. :shock: :panic: :lol: Slow servers today. :disappointed:
Good Luck. :)
I still cant get my mouse cursor to show up in Edgy, even with hw_cursor turned on in xorg.conf ...very strange... :?
Still, I manually upgraded dapper to kernel 2.6.20, so theres not much reason to go Edgy yet. :)
Its being dumb--but Im being even stupider. :lol: I forgot to empty apt-cache, forgot to install ubuntu-desktop before running an upgrade, crashed Synaptic in the middle of an install, causing fifty broken packages that cant be removed for want of a running system...so Im now at the command line, using the "-f" switch a lot with apt, hoping I can save my butt. :panic: :lol:
The chickens done came home to roost after all my luck. The package that snowballed it was "wmnet"--a freaking windowmaker dockapp I havent used in a year--permissions on one of its files was funny, then a long series of events, and a synaptic crash.
/me reminds self: be methodical next time, and this wont happen. :roll:
COME ON SUPER COW POWERS!!
lol
finally the nightmare is spread to you max, welcome to linux!
Nah, I recovered in a couple minutes, and am posting in Edgy. I just had to delete the borken packages, install ubuntu-desktop, and letter rip. Easy.
Not a thing wrong with the Ubuntu end of things, just a mild screw up on my part that cost me a few minutes stress.
So whats yalls excuse?
Im 6/6 with my most recent dist-upgrades. 8)
ill raise you a broken laptop.
Quote from: maximusotterNah, I recovered in a couple minutes, and am posting in Edgy. I just had to delete the borken packages, install ubuntu-desktop, and letter rip. Easy.
Not a thing wrong with the Ubuntu end of things, just a mild screw up on my part that cost me a few minutes stress.
So whats yalls excuse?
Im 6/6 with my most recent dist-upgrades. 8)
Can I call you a git now? ;) I havent even got a command-line, looks like Ill be installing anew. Shame really as Id totally forgotten to backup my emails :shock:
Quote from: CheuleQuote from: maximusotterNah, I recovered in a couple minutes, and am posting in Edgy. I just had to delete the borken packages, install ubuntu-desktop, and letter rip. Easy.
Not a thing wrong with the Ubuntu end of things, just a mild screw up on my part that cost me a few minutes stress.
So whats yalls excuse?
Im 6/6 with my most recent dist-upgrades. 8)
Can I call you a git now? ;) I havent even got a command-line, looks like Ill be installing anew. Shame really as Id totally forgotten to backup my emails :shock:
The info is still there. If you created a separate /home partition when you first installed, then you can reinstall Ubuntu and your stuff will be immaculate. If not, rescue it with a live CD.
And I aint no git, Im a smooth ass motherfu**er!*
*thank Jebus for exfoliation!
Going for Feisty Fawn to check out the graphical way of doing this with the update manager. Just cntrl+f2 and run:
gksudo "update-manager-d"
The -d switch will have it look for a dist upgrade.
Now lets see if I can break my computer. :D
Bah, the update manager didnt want to connect. :lol: guess thats a bit beta. :lol:
They kept changing the packages on the server as its under development--so I had to download them a few times while installing. I ended up running "apt-get dist-upgrade" three or four times. :lol:
No matter, Im sitting in front of a seemingly perfect Feisty desktop. :ptu:
Theres now a very slick "control center". Very professional. :D Just fired up Rhythmbox--it now has a built in Last.fm radio module. :w00t: Listening to it right now. :D Rhythmbox is my favorite player these days. Just enough features to not be too complex. Amarok is neat and all, and there are a few Amarok clones for Gnome now, but Im a RB kinda guy. :)
Feels a bit faster, but who really knows. It does run just great on this pathetically specced 4 1/2 y/o Emachines. :lol:
Hmm, looks like theyve gone all Mono and installed stuff by default like the Tomboy note taker, F-spot photo management,etc. TONS of neat little tweaks. Get it while its hot, though if youre not me, youll likely not have this absurd good luck. :lol:
Nice going :)
Ill probably be taking your advice on future installs and giving /home its own partition (was just too plain lazy to do it before). It seems to have given you the lucky streak :D
Why did you have to go and mention the new goodies in FF, I may just skip EE altogether :D
Ya, do a seperate /home--its so dang easy during install, that theres no reason not to. Then you can be a bit more cavalier with your distro choice. I have two HDDs, so I put some /swap and 2 gigs of /temp on the mainly XP HDD, and it makes the box a lot smoother when doing stuff like recording to the line-in. :D A bit overkill to be sure, but not hard.
Oh, and the bootsplash is super shiny now. :lol:
whoa ive been out of the loop!
Oh, cool! Now when you run "software sources" you can have it search for the fastest mirror near you. :shock: :D
Heres a screenshot. Not really fond of the Control Center approach, but it will likely get cleaned up for the final release.
(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/172/390572099_7a44f79c3b.jpg) (http://flickr.com/photos/landotter/390572099/)
Ubuntu is to operating systems; what Louis Vuitton is to man-bags. (http://gaybuntu.com/) :mrgreen:
Quote from: skidzillaUbuntu is to operating systems; what Louis Vuitton is to man-bags. :mrgreen:
I wholeheartedly agree. :D
Does this OS make me look fat? :shrug:
:lol:
Woohoo, last update broke X. Finally some excitement! :D This is what running the bleeding edge is all about. :lol:
Being a delightful Debian step child, I fixed it in a minute with two runs of "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg", having to manually set the resolution the second time. Oh so 1999! :lol: But this is why I love my penguin. I was able to install Lynx and browse the web w/o X till I remembered my dpkg command. :lol: :P
EDIT: Yesss! They got rid of the stoopit control panel and are back to having real menus. All the complaints worked. :D