[ubuntu-nz] 8.10

[Richard Voogd]

I replaced the dual-boot XP & Feisty on one of my laptops with a clean 
install of Xubuntu from the alternate disk. Apart from being slightly 
more sluggish at times (depending on how much I'm expecting of the 
laptop - it only has 256Mb ram) it seems to be working well

Paulus Herewini wrote:
>> 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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