Comments on: Ubuntu “Feisty Fawn” upgrade was a breeze

By: Tim McCormack

Tim McCormack — Mon, 07 May 2007 13:57:15 +0000

Sorry to hear that, Alan! I noticed a bug with the upgrade tool as well, as I noted in the post.

That's probably why they had it fetched each time you attempt to upgrade -- they can get bug reports and add fixes as the community upgrades.

By: Alan

Alan — Sun, 06 May 2007 14:32:00 +0000

I'm having the opposite experience. I've tried all upgrade options but the process keeps looping at the fetching files stage, after fetching 989/1158 files.

After a series of that I rebooted and update manager prompted me to dist-upgrade to 6.10!
With the 7.04 alternate CD I went through the same "fetching files" process twice.
What a piece of crap this distro is.

Upgrading from 6.06 --> 6.10 was a lot easier.

By: Tim McCormack

Tim McCormack — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 01:12:10 +0000

I was more hesitant about upgrading early after my experience with Edgy Eft -- that version was trouble! Feisty's installation process is a lot better as well (as opposed to upgrade), including some nifty stuff like importing settings from existing Windows and Linux installations. Plus, there's something in the works that will let people install Ubuntu into their Windows partition. Somehow.

By: Nathaniel Schwartz

Nathaniel Schwartz — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 21:56:00 +0000

I beat you to the upgrade Tim! I also was happy that it was less work than a weekly update of packages that you might do with Gentoo. On the other hand, I haven't really noticed any significant changes yet. I'm also too lazy to read the release notes :-)