Upgrade from Ubuntu 6.10 to 7.04

I just tried upgrading to 7.04 through the update manager, and everything seemed to go well, but whenever it gets to the light brown screen before you login it just stops. The HD light stops going and it just sits like that until I turn it off. Is there anything I can really do or do I have to just get out my disc for 6.06 and start all over?

It's an IBM ThinkPad A22m with a 40GB HD and 256MB RAM

 

I am not sure about distribution upgrades. I have never heard completely successful stories with them. Apparently they partially upgrade packages, and leave things in a messy way. I know the Dapper->Edgy upgrade process was a complete fiasco. It's really not the fault of any particular distro, since all upgrades on any OS are going to be messy at some level.

I suggest you basically start fresh, with a clean install. This is especially true since you are working with a release candidate or beta version of Feisty.

 

Yeah, I reinstalled 6.10. I'll just wait a few more days till the final version of 7.04 comes out and then I'll deal with it.

 

I just upgraded from 6.10 to 7.04 remotely, I'm waiting to see how it worked though, as I have a funny drive configuration that apparently wasn't well received SCSI drives and IDE drives that like to rearrange their order so GRUB can't figure them out. If you're going to do a full install, 7.04 is quite stable, and better in all ways for me as compared to 6.10. I'm running the 64bit version of Kubuntu on my laptop, and it's very fast, pretty, stable, and good on the battery, too. Watched a full DVD only using a bit more than a third of the battery power.

On the plus side, I moved from 5.10->6.06 on my server with nary a hiccup, all my email services and web serving stayed fully functional, so there's at least one completely successful story

 

Due to two screw ups, one was my fault, I have had to start at 6.06 and upgrade twice. Both times I have done it though I must say nothing has fowled up and I'm pleased, so add that to the positive upgrade stories

 

You'd definitely be much better off just doing a clean install of Feisty when it's released (scheduled for Thursday). The problem with upgrading is all the proprietary stuff on your system. Everything that Ubuntu officially supports is usually upgraded fine, it's stuff like proprietary graphics drivers, codec libs, and unsupported applications/add-ons (like Automatix) that screw things up. The reason is that many of those proprietary things come from the universe/multiverse repositories which are not usually updated as quickly as the Ubuntu supported repositories.

 

eh I don'treally use that computer for much more than internet and Gaim, so all the codecs and stuff dont really apply. I don't do too much to personalize it yet, mainly because I have no idea what I'm doing

 

One of the things to keep in mind during a dist-upgrade is that the script looks for dependencies according to the default system. If you have newer versions of packages which do not check against the official repos the upgrade will generally complain or fail. Make sure you comment out any third-party repos from your sources.list and make sure you have (k)ubuntu-desktop installed. The package will take care of dependencies and basically bring your desktop back to it's original default setup. Also, if you have the nvidia-glx driver installed it's probably best to uninstall it for the upgrade just in case there are any kernel upgrades the script will complain about.

 

I upgraded both my desktop and laptop to 7.04 32bit and 64bit. No real problem at all. You probably need to recompile some of propitiatory driver then you can run it just like in 6.10.

The first shot may or may not be stable(kernel issues). After you upgrade to 2.6.20.15, everything is fine.