Karmic Alpha 6/Beta

[David Fox]

On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 10:14 AM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

>>
>
> It appears that a _clean_ install of Alpha 6, fully updated (via
> Update-Manager), will be the same as a Beta install.

I did an update-manager install to what is now Karmic Beta (well, more
or less) but I still wonder if I got grub2. Would it only be done on
new installs?

>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Grub2
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Grub2Testing

I'll have to check this out tomorrow. Time to go to bed now. But
thanks for the heads up.



>
> So I think that folks with this type of install (clean install w/GRUB 2)
> can save the electrons & download load on the Beta mirrors/servers.

I'm sure the electrons will be happy :). For what it's worth, updating
tonight (287 megs) did not take nearly as long as I figured it would -
although there were times initially that the throughput was too slow
for my tastes. Certainly better than this morning - my updates were
started about 7 or 8 PM (PDT). Maybe by then some of the load was
going away.



-- 
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