Re: [OCLUG-Tech] safety level of upgrading ubuntu 12.10 to 13.04?

2013-09-27 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 26 Sep 2013, Jean-François Bilodeau wrote: > Though I have a couple of machines, I always have live cds or bootable USB > drives so I can repair failed upgrades / corrupt system. The rare time I need > a second system is usually to serve as a wired Internet connection until I > resurect th

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] safety level of upgrading ubuntu 12.10 to 13.04?

2013-09-26 Thread Jean-François Bilodeau
Though I have a couple of machines, I always have live cds or bootable USB drives so I can repair failed upgrades / corrupt system. The rare time I need a second system is usually to serve as a wired Internet connection until I resurect the wifi on the failed machine. On 13-09-26 08:08 PM, Mik

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] safety level of upgrading ubuntu 12.10 to 13.04?

2013-09-26 Thread Raj
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 8:08 PM, Mike wrote: > > > I just finished an upgrade to my SuSE box and it broke grub, several > modules > including ext3 and video, My Laptop is now reminding me that 13.04 is > waiting > I think I'll hold off a bit I start another adventure. And I now have a > Wheezy

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] safety level of upgrading ubuntu 12.10 to 13.04?

2013-09-26 Thread Mike
On Thursday, September 19, 2013 08:48:50 AM Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Thu, 19 Sep 2013, Rick wrote: > > I always log in at run level 3, usually to start X. (startxfce4) > > > > On my home puter, I have to recompile an nvidea module every time I > > upgrade the kernel. It seems likely that an

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] safety level of upgrading ubuntu 12.10 to 13.04?

2013-09-19 Thread Rick
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 9:02 AM, Jean-François Bilodeau < jfbilod...@chronogears.com> wrote: > > On 13-09-19 08:48 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >> On Thu, 19 Sep 2013, Rick wrote: >> >> I always log in at run level 3, usually to start X. (startxfce4) >>> >>> On my home puter, I have to recompil

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] safety level of upgrading ubuntu 12.10 to 13.04?

2013-09-19 Thread Jean-François Bilodeau
On 13-09-19 08:48 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Thu, 19 Sep 2013, Rick wrote: I always log in at run level 3, usually to start X. (startxfce4) On my home puter, I have to recompile an nvidea module every time I upgrade the kernel. It seems likely that an Ubuntu upgrade would replace your

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] safety level of upgrading ubuntu 12.10 to 13.04?

2013-09-19 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 19 Sep 2013, Rick wrote: > I always log in at run level 3, usually to start X.  (startxfce4) > > On my home puter, I have to recompile an nvidea module every time I upgrade > the kernel.  It seems > likely that an Ubuntu upgrade would replace your kernel. > > That might be what your elusi

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] safety level of upgrading ubuntu 12.10 to 13.04?

2013-09-19 Thread Rick
I always log in at run level 3, usually to start X. (startxfce4) On my home puter, I have to recompile an nvidea module every time I upgrade the kernel. It seems likely that an Ubuntu upgrade would replace your kernel. That might be what your elusive screen is telling you, and it might not. Ca

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] safety level of upgrading ubuntu 12.10 to 13.04?

2013-09-19 Thread Jean-Francois Messier
after an upgrade to a new version. If not, no harm has been done, and you can get back to business in a matter of minutes. JF --- Le code source libre c'est l'ouverture de l'esprit. Open Source is open minded. Original Message Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] safety lev

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] safety level of upgrading ubuntu 12.10 to 13.04?

2013-09-19 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 19 Sep 2013, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Wed, 18 Sep 2013, Jean-François Bilodeau wrote: > > > I'm running Mint here, which is an Ubuntu derivative, and performed not > > one, not two but five dist-upgrade of the same installation. Some were > > smoother than others, but for the most part

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] safety level of upgrading ubuntu 12.10 to 13.04?

2013-09-19 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 18 Sep 2013, Jean-François Bilodeau wrote: > I'm running Mint here, which is an Ubuntu derivative, and performed not > one, not two but five dist-upgrade of the same installation. Some were > smoother than others, but for the most part, they worked. > > The same harddisk (and the installat

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] safety level of upgrading ubuntu 12.10 to 13.04?

2013-09-18 Thread Jean-François Bilodeau
I'm running Mint here, which is an Ubuntu derivative, and performed not one, not two but five dist-upgrade of the same installation. Some were smoother than others, but for the most part, they worked. The same harddisk (and the installating) has been in four different physical system (includin

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] safety level of upgrading ubuntu 12.10 to 13.04?

2013-09-18 Thread David Patte ₯
Does this explain where your recently freecycled 30GB hard drives came from? :) On 2013-09-18 9:22, Prof J C Nash (U30A) wrote: On a much earlier upgrade, I had more disk than Ubuntu SAID it required by quite a margin, but I don't think the space estimate was accurate and I ran out of disk and

Re: [OCLUG-Tech] safety level of upgrading ubuntu 12.10 to 13.04?

2013-09-18 Thread Prof J C Nash (U30A)
On a much earlier upgrade, I had more disk than Ubuntu SAID it required by quite a margin, but I don't think the space estimate was accurate and I ran out of disk and That day some new swear words were invented. JN On 13-09-18 08:44 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: last night, i threw c

[OCLUG-Tech] safety level of upgrading ubuntu 12.10 to 13.04?

2013-09-18 Thread Robert P. J. Day
last night, i threw caution to the winds and just ran a "dist-upgrade" on my ubuntu 12.04 system to bring it up to 12.10. and, amazingly, it seemed to work fine. so i figured i could do it all over again, and go from 12.10 to 13.04 and, based on what i read, that would involve running simply: