[ale] Ubuntu recommendations

[Richard Faulkner]

Most certainly!  My wife decided to accept the updater's offer of a
newer version to do an upgrade from 9.10 to 10.10 and it was a smoking
hole failure.  I had no idea that it had happened until she asked me to
look at why her machine was acting so weird.  It was "running" but it
was a mess.  

RinL


-----Original Message-----
From: The Don Lachlan <ale-at-ale.org at unpopularminds.org>
Reply-to: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] Ubuntu recommendations
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 13:33:58 -0400


On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 01:05:24PM -0400, James Sumners wrote:
> Since Ubuntu is based on Debian, I'm going to guess that it means this:
> Debian does not support a 'dist-upgrade' between versions while
> skipping a version. That is, if you are running Debian Etch and try to
> a dist-upgrade to Debian Squeeze[1], it will probably fail miserably
> and no one will bother to help you. The supported method would be to
> dist-upgrade Debian Etch => Debian Lenny => Debian Squeeze. So if
> there is a release between Ubuntu 10.04 and 11.04, then you should
> update to the intermediary version first.
> [1] -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian#Release_history

Yup. Here's the appropriate info from Ubuntu:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes

In short, you can only upgrade to the "next" version. To go from 10.04 to
11.04, you need to upgrade to 10.10 first.

-L

> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Chris Fowler
> <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> > One thing that confuse me is when I get this warning "Partial Upgrade
> > Required".  Does this mean that updates are no longer available for
> > 10.04 and I now have to go somewhere in between 10.04 and 11.04?
> >
> > Chris
> 
> 
> -- 
> James Sumners
> http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/
> 
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