Comments on: Having a Hardy day – Ten steps helping you not to have a hard time upgrading

By: 10 TIPS para una feliz actualizacion a Intrepid Ibex « UbuntuWay - Cada vez mejor !

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:21:47 +0000

[...] unos meses, justo después del lanzamiento de Hardy Heron 8.04, escribí unos consejos para tener un suave traspaso a la nueva versión. Con la inmininente venida de Intrepid Ibex, y su [...]

By: 10 hints for having a nice time with an upgrade to Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex | Screenage

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:45:43 +0000

[...] couple of months ago, just before the Hardy release, I posted some hints for having a smooth upgrade. As the Intrepid Ibex release is three weeks ahead and beta is flying around, I’d like to [...]

By: EEE updated to hardy | Screenage

EEE updated to hardy | Screenage — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:23:32 +0000

[...] Having a Hardy day – Ten steps helping you not to have a hard time upgrading [...]

By: vortex

vortex — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 01:21:17 +0000

@bullgard4:
No, #6 is the most important!

I myself had the phenomenon of a 386 kernel instead of the general version after the dist-upgrade from Feisty to Gutsy. Till today, I can’t run any other display driver than “vesa” when booting the general kernel. It just says that it doesn’t find the device.(??) With the 386 kernel, everything including hardware acceleration and 3D effects works fine. I will install Hardy anew on this machine to get the general kernel working again. :/

By: bullgard4

bullgard4 — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:23:03 +0000

Section #10 is the most important.

By: Three great resources for Linux noobs « I’m Just an Avatar

Three great resources for Linux noobs « I’m Just an Avatar — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:57:01 +0000

[...] with Ubuntu Hardy about a month away there’s a list of ten things to do to help you make the upgrade to Hardy easier. I wonder if Peng knew about this when he made the upgrade last week? Just kidding, [...]

By: ccm

ccm — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:01:01 +0000

@Mark:

Thanks for your comment, I can support this. For a couple of networks I set up apt-proxies speeding up update processes dramatically.

By: ccm

ccm — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:00:20 +0000

@Alan:

For #5:

Please note that this is meant for alpha/beta as clearly stated there. I really think sticking to main can save you a lot of time as this is about getting hotfixes probably urgently needed.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:08:30 +0000

Another hint if you are upgrading multiple PC’s on your lan is to setup one of the PC’s, one that has plenty of HDD space, with Apt-cache and configure the other PC’s to get updates via this PC. This will then mean you only need to grab packages from the online repo’s once and the rest of your client PC’s then retrieve it from the local cache, benefiting from an enormous speed boost! I’ve already got a PC on my lan running hardy, which I’m updating once a week, so hopefully come upgrade day I won’t have to much more to download and have a near complete set of packages for the rest of the PC’s!

By: Alan Pope

Alan Pope — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:55:21 +0000

#4 is already done by update-manager during the upgrade, there’s no need to do it yourself.

#5 is a bad idea. If every switches to the main server for the upgrade to Hardy then it will get crushed. People should use their own local mirrors, that’s what they’re there for.