[wellylug] Ubuntu Dapper Drake Beta

[Ian Beardslee]

Well, in a fit of boredom last night I decided to upgrade my Ubuntu 5.10
to the Beta version of Ubuntu 6.06 .. live on the edge for a bit.

It wasn't a complete nightmare - whew :-)

But because the NZ mirror (http://nz.archive.ubuntu.org) seemed to spit
the dummy part way through the download process I think next time I will
download the ISO image and upgrade from CD - in the end I had to alter
the /etc/apt/sources.list to use the AU mirror.  Don't know if the fun
and games were because of that.  I changed it back to NZ but even with
5.10 I found that on a regular basis the NZ mirror seemed to have a lot
of 404 errors.

A couple of funny things that I will have to investigate further and
then maybe submit as bugs (although I didn't take the in depth notes I
should have) ... stopped on the initramfs.conf file (Crtl+C and it
continued) ... scrollkeeper had I/O errors failing to load external
entities ... a couple of things depended on the udev which wasn't
installed or configured yet ... some stuff about evms failing ...
eventually stopped on laptop mode tools (had to bomb right out of that).
When I tried to kick it off again there were problems with evms failing
with a permissions error (code 13).  Once it was all installed and
working I discover there seems to be a problem with the gnome-pilot
applet and the rhythmbox music player stops every now and then.  I'm
stuck using the 386 kernel rather than the K7 one because the K7 kernel
just don't seem to allow itself to be setup properlike.

It is working now, evolution ticks along quite nicely (none of the
crashes when exiting that I had with the previous version), firefox and
gaim seem to behave.

Looking good for when it is finally released.

Happy to answer any questions or work with people keen to try doing the
same - maybe something for someone brave at the WellyLUG next Monday?