[ubuntu-za] upgrade or not

[Vijay Makanjee]

Well I took the plunge.

It took me more than 3 hours to update my desktop to intrepid.
Part of the problem was that there was a small power failure in the 
midst of the update.

This meant that the update got screwed up. What seemed to happen was 
that the update programme found which files needed to be updated - 
deleted these and started the updates and then bam - eskom or my 
municipality or some nut or bolt in the system - the power went down for 
a few minutes.

When I got booted up again, the system was somewhat screwed up. Lost 
almost all my old settings and the update then just loaded a basic set.
Found that the kernel did not update and some things were messed up in 
the settings - like the nvidia card, grub, login screens, firefox etc.

no matter, I got the intrepid kernel and then manually loaded that and 
some of the missing programs. Works fine now.
Seems a bit faster than hardy... but the specs are very different on the 
hardware between my laptop - production machine and the desktop - in 
between server for apt-cacher ng, testing and general backup pc

running 32bit intrepid

desktop Hardware info.
self built old pentium4 type 2.4ghz
1gb ram
old compaq mv540 screen
nvidia card - geforce 6600GT


Vijay Makanjee
Ergo | P O Box 19801 | Tecoma 5214 | South Africa
Ph +2782 6014353 | Fax: 0866563858
vijay at ergo dot co dot za