Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy to 7.04 Fiesty

[James McDonald]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 11:11:24AM -0500, Michael Hipp wrote:
> 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
>
The only problem I noticed for myself was a disk error on /var
/dev/hda4. I don't really know how fsck works but I just ran it as
this....

fsck /dev/hda4

I accepted the defaults and then it finished I'm not sure if I did it
right....