[ubuntu-uk] updating to edgy ...

[Rob Beard]

tim matthews wrote:
> here's an interesting link from Slashdot ...
>
> http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/28/239258
>
> meaning that something has gone wrong with updating from dapper to edgy.
>
> or not true? your experiences?
>
> I'm hoping to do that update on the workstation later on next month ...
>
> t.
>   
I updated from Dapper (i386) to the Edgy beta (i386) about a week ago 
without any major issues.  IIRC the only thing that went wrong was 
VMWare and I found a fix for that on the Ubuntu forums.


Before I had Dapper I was running Breezy and I did an automatic upgrade 
from Breezy to Dapper.


I am now however running Edgy (AMD64) full release.  I installed this 
version from the alternative CD - I ran a text based install and then ran:

apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

The reason for this type of install was I accidently ran rm -fr / (long 
story) which deleted bin, etc, boot etc.  Luckily my data was intact in 
/home although trying to install from the Ubuntu Desktop CD kept 
prompting me for format my hard drive (/home was on the same partition 
as /).

Rob