[ubuntu-nz] 8.10

[Paulus Herewini]

>
> 2008/11/4 Paulus Herewini <paulus.h at paradise.net.nz 
> <mailto:paulus.h at paradise.net.nz>>
>
>     Just upgraded to Ibex yesterday by burning alternative disk,
>     inserting and selecting "upgrade". Encounted a lot of errors with
>     a somehow corrupt disk burn, burnt a second time and encounted
>     more errors. Unfortunately my girlfriend came home and found the
>     window saying 99% complete but "upgrade could not be completed".
>
>
> It's probably a bit late to say so, but this is why the disk includes 
> a self-check option. Also I've never had an ubuntu upgrade go well, I 
> always just do a fresh install these days. It's pretty easy if you 
> have /home on it's own partition and a good idea of what software you 
> need to reinstall afterwards.
Yes, the disk "self check" option is how I found that the first disk was 
corrupt. Also I would do a fresh install if I wasn't running an svn 
server on the root filesystem, which took a long time to configure, 
containing all of my projects.

Hmmm.
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