10.04 upgrade

[Jonas Norlander]

On 1 May 2010 07:00, Nigel Ridley <nigel at prayingforisrael.net> wrote:
> On 05/01/2010 07:49 AM, Nigel Ridley wrote:
>> On 04/30/2010 08:19 AM, Nigel Ridley wrote:
>>> Any of you guys done the upgrade yet from 9.10 yet?
>>> Any problems or a no-brainer?
>>>
>>> I think I shall wait a bit as this is my main production box.
>>>
>>> Nigel
>>>
>>
>> A couple of questions:
>>
>> How long did the upgrade from 9.10 take approx ?
>> And was there any problems with non-standard repo app installs?
>>
>> Nigel
>>
>
> I should have added:
> Does the upgrade get rid of all the previously installed kernels?
> If not, how does one clear them out?
>
> Nigel

The upgrade took perhaps four hours. I had good speed downloading the
packages and it was 2500Mb to download. The download speed was OK for
me but I guess it can make big difference what mirrors one is using. I
had no problems with packages from other sources like Medibuntu or
Kubuntu Backports PPA. The only upgrade problem (I have problems but
not related to the upgrade process) I had was with Grub.
The older kernels is not removed but they should be easy to remove
with aptitude (look under under "obsolete packages").

I forgot there was one more problem with the upgrade. I had CDemu
installed from a PPA and there was a problem with removing it. I had
to add the cdemu group to be able to finish the purge of CDemu.

/ Jonas