Re: Ubuntu Upgrade Woes

On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:35:55 +0000, Graham wrote:

On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 21:57:44 -0700, ray wrote:

And my experience has been that with Debian based distributions an upgrade
usually works quite well. With one caveat. It is insane to upgrade at the
earliest possible moment. A lesson I learned long ago with DEC - never go
with version 1 of anything. This is the same reason no sane person would
ever install MS before service pack two is available. There are simply too
many gotchas. I just upgraded my laptop from Ubuntu 5.10 to 6.06 about
three weeks ago - I judged it finally ready to go.

Completely agree with you about upgrading at the earliest possible moment.
I'll be waiting at least a month before upgrading this to Edgy, allowing
for the major upgrade bugs to be fixed and for the servers to quieten.

As for the previous poster who said that upgrades in Mandriva hardly
worked, I beg to differ from experience. urpmi was quite capable of
allowing you to upgrade successfully, and as long as you didn't install
modified critical base packages, then the upgrade should work fine. I went
from Mandrake 9.1 to 10.0, then from 10.0 to 10.1, and then from that to
2006.0, all without major incident (OK, I had to jig about in 10.1 due to
the changes to Xorg and Udev, but that wasn't backbreaking). Sure, for a
newbie using Mandriva, I wouldn't recommend the upgrade route, but for
those who have some idea what's going on, it's perfectly acceptable.
Anyway, if it goes wrong, it's not as if you can't then do a reinstall.


Graham

The first successful upgrade I did of any Linux distro - I didn't try all
that many - was SuSE (I think 9.x to 10) a while back. I seem to have
better luck with Debian based distros - I've done kubuntu and elive
without incident.

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