posted by fretinator on Thu 19th Apr 2007 15:13
I am feeling very Feisty, and have decided to upgrade my Dapper Drake laptop to Feisty. I assume I will have to upgrade to Edgy Eft first. Any ideas/suggestion/words of wisdom (besides backing stuff first, which I will already by doing)?
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2005-07-06
I did the upgrade this weekend. I used the update-manger ("sudo update-manager -c"). The upgrade to Edgy Eft took a long time due to slow downloads - but everything upgraded fine. Then I did the same technique to upgrade to Feisty. Strangely, even though this was just a couple days after release, the packages downloaded very quickly. From this I take it that servers were switched from Edgy to Feisty to handle the load.
Anyway, the upgrade went well. The only strange thing was as the Feisty packages were being installed, it asked me about my RAID setup. Well, I'm using a laptop, so I sure don't have any RAID setup. I just hit enter without realizing that the default choice was to use RAID. So, during the install of packages it kept complaing about no RAID setup (.conf file) being present. It didn't seem to hurt anything.
The only app that was broken was Parallels, which I figured might happen. When I ran 'parallels-config' after the upgrade (necessary anytime you upgrade the kernel and kernel-source), the script would fail - some kind of script error. If I remember correctly, I think Ubuntu switched the system shell to Dash, which probably breaks a lot of things. I'll have to look into that later. Since system-level scripts have been using Bourne shell syntax since time begain, that does seem a little strange.
Well, happy Monday!
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2005-04-01
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How did it go 
Everthing is working fine. However, one of the main reasons I decided to upgrade was because I heard that Feisty really centered on improved laptop support. I still have this dream that someday I may be able to sleep/suspend my laptop under Linux. It was funny when I tried it. It went to sleep alright, but it was more like a coma! Not only would it not wake up, I couldn't even power it off by holding the power button. I had to literally disconnect the power and remove the battery to power the laptop off. Oh well! Other than that, I don't (as an end user) notice that much difference, other than slightly newer versions of all my apps. It was nice to get to 2.0 of Firefox from the 1.5 series. I guess I could turn on the 3D desktop stuff and see how it works, but I only have a 64MB integrated ATI card, so I imagine I would just be shutting it back off anyway.
I will give Ubuntu two thumbs up on the upgrade process. It was nice to be able to go from two version back to current without much fuss. That is something I have tried in the past with other distros, and this is the first time I haven't had to go ahead and install from scratch when I was done. Personally, I really think the Debian package system handles things like a Distribution upgrade better than RPM distros.
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