Ubuntu 6.10 Update Notes

For an easy upgrade using as little network as possible. These are just my notes I made during the upgrade. I post them so that they might be of use to someone, but you are responsible for how you use them, not me.

• get the alternate install disk off a local university server. Local == no bandwidth == good.
• sudo mkdir /media/ISO

• sudo mount -o loop -t iso9660 ubuntu-6.10-alternate-i386.iso /media/ISO
• sudo apt-cdrom add -m -d=/media/ISO

• nano /etc/apt/sources.list
• Comment out everything & add the following lines

deb file:/media/ISO edgy main restricted
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy main

• sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude dist-upgrade && sudo aptitude dist-upgrade

(No, that's not a typo. From the wiki: "The first run of dist-upgrade will upgrade everything except for upstart. After this a second dist-upgrade will finish the upgrade.")

This *will* need to download some stuff, but it will be less then a third of what you'd be downloading otherwise. For me it was 200Mb instead of 700Mb.

• sudo apt-get -f install
• sudo dpkg --configure -a
• sudo umount /media/ISO
• reboot

Handy Links
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EdgyUpgrades

Video Card
ATi Radeon Xpress 200m fglrx no 3D acceleration.

http://felipe-alfaro.org/blog/2006/09/06/ubuntu-edgy-ati-fglrx-dri-3d-acceleration-and-xorg-composite-extension/

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