[wellylug] Ubuntu Dapper Drake Beta

[Ian Sterling]

The screenshots and whatnot I've seen of it look enticing.  I'm
downloading it now to play with when I get home from work today. :-)

--Ian...

On 5/1/06, Jamie Baddeley <wellylug at vpc.co.nz> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 20:57 +1200, Ian Beardslee wrote:
> > 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?
>
>
> I think you'd be great at having a bit of yarn about it.
> It's all about sharing the experience.
>
>
> cheers
>
> jamie
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> Jamie Baddeley <wellylug at vpc.co.nz>
>
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