[wellylug] Ubuntu Dapper Drake Beta

[John C Barstow]

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 :-)

Just be glad you didn't upgrade during the X.org transition - *that* was
painful.

> 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.

I find the main US archive most reliable for non-stable releases. Of
course having apt-proxy installed on one of my machines eases the
bandwidth for me. I suspect the mirrors have sync issues when the
repository is churning (as development versions tend to).

> 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.

Funny, I've been running the K7 kernel for yonks now. In fact just
updated again last night with no problem.

> Looking good for when it is finally released.

The new color palette + icon set really brightens the mood; gives it
that polished feel.

> 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?
> 
Ooh, I'm unemployed now. Maybe I can actually make the meeting!!
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