Hi Niyam, I am also using Ubuntu Feisty on an old Cyrix-III box. If you are worried about Ubuntu upgrading from Feisty to Gusty, well it wont until unless you specifically tell it to 'dist-upgrade' to the +1 version. So the updates you receive post Gusty launch are specific to Feisty and are mostly security updates or backports,updates (if you have the these repositories enabled in the sources list). IIRC Ubuntu will support Feisty security updates till April 08. So in your case while updating your freshly installed Feisty it will update to the latest packages from the Feisty branch of the repository. Mostly its the kernel updates which may botch old h/w systems, in my case mouse stop working so simply reverted back to the old kernel . Niyam can you recall the specific package update which might have caused your system to go into turbulent weather? ( /var/log/dpkg.log* files might be of help).
To take a snapshot of the installed system you can try APTonCD [1] , I havnt used it myself but all it will help is in saving you bandwidth. Or you can just dump /var/cache/apt/archives/ from system to system [1] http://aptoncd.sourceforge.net Cheers, Jasbir P.S ubuntu-in Mailing list is also very active. https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22/23, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
