Just to add to the flow of comments - I managed 3 successfull upgrades from Efty to Feisty (two laptops - one server) basically following the notes here: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading but only using the "Network upgrade for Ubuntu servers" method (all at the command line). I had a number of restarts, and config resolution issues - most notibly having to dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg-core, and problems around acper-acpi - but other than that - it got there in the end. Cheers. On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 08:29:38PM +1200, Michael McDonald wrote:
On 30/04/07, Michael McDonald <mikencolleen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
And so the saga continues. There's still lots of other possibilities to try. I'll let you know how I get on.
I didn't get there - I've given up on Feisty! Unless "something" shows up, I'll wait until Grumpy or Grizzly or whatever the next version will be named. The installer crashes every time on the Migration Assistant. It makes no difference whether or not another version of Ubuntu was present, so that leaves one of two things as the most likely candidate for the problem - the Windows partition on hda1 pr the extended partition on hdb.
With the standard install there appears to be no way to avoid the Migration Assistant. Perhaps it can be bypassed with the Alternate CD?
Had one other interesting problem. Gparted caused one little hiccup when I deleted a partition on hdb - it renumbered/renamed the other partitions, and GRUB fell over when I rebooted. After the (re)install of Edgy, GRUB functioned OK - but I imagine that if I'd still had another version of Linux on my system, it would would have had a hernia as a result of that change.
I'm beginning to think that upgrades are a recipe for trouble and that clean installs are much better - two troublesome upgrades (Fedora Core 4/5 and Ubuntu 6.10/7.04) within 12 months doesn't give me a great deal of confidence in the process.
So, I'm back to where I was ... except that I've got to reinstall some extra software and set printers etc up again ... but it's also cleaned out the stuff I no longer use.
Michael
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