Hardy Warning

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I advise against upgrading to the rc from Gusty. Not only do I have the major graphics rpoblems mentioned in my other thread but just now apt-get has really screwed up my system. I had CUPs printer server problems when upgrading to Gusty but thought maybe I can sort this out with Hardy. Used apt-get to unisntall all CUPS related things, rebooted, apt-get installed all CUPs components again and then ran an apt-get update for good measure.....

I was busy doing some working letting this happen in the background. I found apt-get had uninstalled a load of packages it claimed were no longer required. Unfortunately it uninstalled all the important packages such as network support! I was left with no internet acces, a non-functioning KDE, and seemingly no way to access may USB hard disk since USB support was removed.


Hence I have no way of repairing or backing up my system..... I'm going to download the Gusty CD and boot off the CD to try and make a back up, and then reinstall Gusty.


Ubuntu really seems to be going downhill, or is it just me?
 
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I had problems upgrading a few weeks ago; since then it's stable. I have another machine running Gutsy and it also works.

When upgrading to Hardy I had quite a few upgrade failure, I had to follow the error messages and do the --force to get the few packages that refuse to configure to do so...
It was not painless, but it's 'beta' and after that it's quite stable now...
 
Yep, I was just gonna say that although it's not on the homepage you can still find it easily enough... choose whatever your favourite mirror is and just browse the directory structure until you get it.

ps - gutsy not gusty ;)
 
I'm in Gutsy live right now, had to manually mount the old home partition but it seems to have worked.

Tarring up my home directory, hoping there is space...

Then I cna start the slow installation...
 
damn ran out of space...


freed up a large NTFS partition on my external HD, copying the incomplete archive across.

will the /update option in tar finish off the tar'ing without requiring a complete compression?
 
damn ran out of space...


freed up a large NTFS partition on my external HD, copying the incomplete archive across.

will the /update option in tar finish off the tar'ing without requiring a complete compression?
 
To me the very first sentence explained it all. The fact it was a beta release being used and in no way stable. Then its followed up with....

Ubuntu really seems to be going downhill, or is it just me?
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I assumed since it was provided under apt-get without warning of being a beta it was no longer a beta....

Anyway, I have a 7.10 installation working with my home directory back up. Surprise surprise, not ATI hardware acceleration despite an hour of fiddling.....
 
In my experience new Ubuntu releases are usually a bit shaky. 7.10 gave me some problems in the first week, but once the patches start coming out it settles down. Using 8.04 now and it's the same story - some parts don't feel quite right but i'm confident that in a couple of weeks everything will be much more stable.
 
This is the first time I've installed on anything other than a laptop (which can be a nightmare :p ) but other than having to install the ATI restricted drivers and flick a few sound switches it's been no problems whatsoever. (Although this is a clean install rather than an upgrade)

The upgrade on the lappy went fine as well apart from killing Ndiswrapper, but that happens every time.

~S
 
brummie said:
dont the built in restricted drivers work?
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No, but I managed to get Envy to install drivers correctly and setup hardware acceleration.
Sorted out a printer problem and eventually solved a Latex problem by compiling the latest Kile 2.0 source code -- the Adept package would not compile latex documents....

I'm installing some more software and testing some more things. Once done I will make a complete image of the root partition.
 
brummie said:
It WAS beta till a few days ago and as OP said it was a Release Candidate it is assumed it was put on before then maybe...?
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The upgrade was offered through the system update and Adept..., hence to me that equates to final release.
If there were known problems it shouldn't have been available, at least not without warning of Beta status.
 
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