Gutsy Feedback

[Jack Bowling]

On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 08:33:54PM -0700, NoOp wrote:
> On 10/02/2007 05:41 PM, NoOp wrote:
> > On 10/02/2007 02:16 PM, Nils wrote:
> >> Hi all
> >> 
> >> I wrote a small blog post about my experiences with Gutsy so far:
> >> http://emerging-patterns.com/blog/articles/2007/10/02/gutsy-gibbon
> >> 
> >> 
> >> greets
> >> 
> >> Nils
> >> 
> > 
> > Glad it worked for you. I spent yesterday upgrading my test server
> > (w/desktop) & that took all day. Upgrading a laptop today & even with
> > the alternate CD it's 6 hours in (4 to do from CD with dependency
> > complaints all through the process & 2 hours for it to fetch another 442
> > partial updates, etc., etc.).
> 
> And another 3 hours later it's still trying to figure out which crash
> report to process first. Note: this is/was a pretty simple & very well
> working system that went from dapper to edgy to fiesty.
>

The method that worked best for me installing Gutsy on my laptop was to
use the Alternate CD, install a minimal system, then install ubuntu-desktop
and drag everything else in. Worked like a champ.

Jack