Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy to 7.04 Fiesty

[Michael Hipp]

Collins Richey wrote:
> On 3/28/07, James McDonald <james at jamesmcdonald.id.au> wrote:
>> Last night I began an edgy to fiesty upgrade using `sudo update-manager
>> -c -d' as far as upgrades go it's a gui based no-brainy.
>>
>> However it failed first go because it said I didn't have enough space in
>> /boot. After deleting all the kernels that didn't match `uname -r ' and
>> cleaning up / to give myself some breathing space, it was all go.
>>
>> Then I came in to see how it went this morning and the download hadn't
>> completed. Sometimes things aren't as easy as you think they will be. A
>> core switch in my ISP's (Exetels) internet link providers(Telstra)
>> network had failed at 4:06 am this morning and it's only just come back
>> up ~9:30am.
>>
>> So now I'm sitting here watching a progress bar...
>>
>> Using Ubuntu makes me feel like a populist. It seems everywhere on the
>> net there are howto's on using Ubuntu.
>>
> 
> I wish you luck with the upgrade. Some people have great success; for
> others it fails miserably. I've been running the 7.04 development
> environment for months now with relatively few problems. Finally I got
> tired of some dependency hangups I couldn't resolve (this always
> happens with development), so I reinstalled this weekend. Now I've got
> a compete list of the things I need to do a replacement at any point.
> Al my critical files are in a common disk area, so it's pretty easy to
> complete a replacement.

I have systems I've brought forward all the way from 4.10 Warty and only had 
one upgrade fail. (Well, ignoring the propensity of MDADM to randomly renumber 
my mdX devices, but I don't think that's a function of Buntu.)

Michael