Results of my Dapper Install

[Me - Atlantic]

On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 08:13 -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote:
> On 7/26/06, Duncan Lithgow <duncan at lithgow-schmidt.dk> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 08:13 -0400, Me - Atlantic wrote:
> > ...
> > > Temporary failure resolving '[URL]'...
> > > (Networking is NOT running) - GRRR
> > > Go into networking admin and set up ether connnections properly!
> > What was wrong with the way it was set up? And if Ubuntu couldn't get
> > out to the internet how did you get security updates enabled in
> > sources.list? Actually you don't mention enabling any repos, which ones
> > were enabled by default - just main and security?
> 
> The Desktop CD sets the machine up as a DHCP client.  If no DHCP
> services are available, the machine is not able to connect to the
> network until it's been configured in the Networking control panel
> post installation.
Since I have 2 eth dev's (card and wireless), and, since I've had this
problem with every distro I've tried on this machine with the exception
of Gentoo stage 1, I'm used to going into the network and setting up the
interfaces correctly, and in the correct order.  It's a small issue, and
not one that requires panic... but maybe the installer could ask (DHCP
or IP)...
> 
> The main, restricted, dapper-updates, and dapper-security are enabled
> by default.
Yes, and they were available for the installation.
> 
> > > (Update manager isn't showing in the desktop)... odd
> > It has to update all the local repository lists in the background. But
> > I'm not even sure it checks on the day you install, it might think it's
> > just been updated until tomorrow comes around.
> 
> If the network isn't working, then no updates will be availalbe,
> however, if the machine can get to the Internet immediately after
> installation, it will present you with updates after a few minutes.
After setting up the networking properly, and running apt-get update &&
apt-get upgrade, the updater did jump in with 4 updates available (all
kernel related).
So, now the basic desktop system on the laptop is up and running...

All in all, the install went very well.  If I have a choice between
dist-upgrade and fresh install, I'll take the long way.  A full backup
as an image, and a full tarball would restore any files/confs  I'd
_have_ to have back after the fact.
(If I had a spare spare machine, I'd take a look at Edgy, but lack of
available hardware prevents it atm)...