I keep hearing these horror stories of going from dapper to edgy. I've upgraded at least a dozen installations from d->e and not one went sideways. All of them were "desktop" installations with the usual mess of binary drivers, restrictced codecs, etc. I think the key is not to use third-party repos and ugly hacks like automatix. They may make things "easier", but I have yet to see one that is put together by someone who knows what they are doing well enough to not cause serious breakage in other areas.
On 3/15/07, Garl Grigsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm 0.5 for three with upgrading Dapper to Edgy. Two of them failed > so completely that I had to wipe, install, and restore backups. The > third one is broken in small ways*, but it boots, and I haven't had > time to reinstall. See that surprises me. I have one system that went from 5.10, to 6.06, and last week to 6.10 with only a few problems. I had binary video drivers installed on 5.10 and the machine wasn't happy with the upgrade (had to boot into safe mode and switch back to the nv driver). After that I learned my lesson. Revert to the default driver(s) before upgrading. Other than that, and having to reinstall a couple of packages, everything seems to work. It took a while (hours) to download all the packages, but it did work. Now this is on my kids desktop machine, so maybe it was simpler that most, but it did work. Garl _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
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