Good Idea for new users

[Avi Greenbury]

On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:24:18 -0700 (PDT)
Leonard Chatagnier <lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> > Presumably because it didn't for other people. There are
> > certainly
> > several related bugs.
> > 
> I suppose the person doing the install couldn't have made a mistake?
> And that it couldn't somehow be hardware related?  These are
> mentioned in some of the bug reports I've read.

It almost certainly is hardware related, what with ext4 and grub2 being
bits of the system that interact directly with the hardware.

I don't know the ins and outs of the problems, though. I don't run
either system yet, and haven't been keeping track of the reports. But
bugs against boot loaders and filesystems are to be taken substantially
more seriously than those against media players and IRC clients.

> I know it's supported.  Am just giving my experience and stating what
> worked for me.  I've done both but not a direct upgrade from an older
> version in quite some time.  YMMV, but I think I said that on one or
> the related posts. I still think Karl's advice is not the best as far
> as Ubuntu goes, YMMV.

I agree that Karl's idea is not one of the best. But I'm also more than
a little disheartened by your apparent acceptance that the upgrade
process is one doomed to failure.
I rely on it working, and as such would like people who find bugs in it
to report them.

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