Trey’s Blog|brain spillage!

Though I plan on doing a clean install of the latest version of Ubuntu (6.06), I ran across this nice upgrade feature found in the System Updates Manager. Apparently, with this new release, you no longer have to fuss with changing your repositories over and doing a Dist Upgrade. You simply click on Upgrade and follow any prompts that might come up. For an operating system to not only be fully upgradeable, but to then add a extremely simple method to do it, is amazing. The screenshots below show most of the steps involved. I tried to do this overnight and during a busy day so the whole process took me about 24 hours, but that is because there were quite a bit of prompts throughout the process asking if I wanted to overwrite the existing config files. In my case, I probably fubbed something up and now my computer won’t boot into the latest kernel and when I select the kernel one version back is half loads and gives my partial access to the system. Since I planned on doing the clean install I was just going to try this to see where it lead me, but I don’t think I have it in me to try to fix this install which I already knew was a mess prior to this version. I’ll post more about that experience when I find the time to do the install.