7.10 upgrade
I did the upgrade to 7.10 yesterday, and everything ran absolutely perfectly. There’s two ways you can do the upgrade: (1) burn an ISO, boot off that ISO and upgrade the installation, or (2) do the upgrade in-place via the software update tool.
I initially tried to use the ISO image, but ran into the same problem I did during the initial installation. Because the 9400 has the wonderful 1920×1200 screen, and the native X configuration under Ubuntu doesn’t quite understand it, X won’t start up. I could have used the text installer, but was too lazy. I found some info on the web somewhere (I’ll link to it if I find it again) about how you can stop the install part-way through, tweak the X config of the installer so that it works, then resume the install.
Again, lazyness got the better part of me, so I figured I’d try the in-place upgrade via the software update tool. It had been notifying me for a day or two that the 7.10 upgrade was available, so yesterday I took up it’s invitation to do the upgrade. It was the simplest and easiest Linux upgrade I have ever done. It told me clearly which packages would be upgraded, which were unchanged, which were now redundant and would be removed, then just did it. No fuss.
There were a few questions along the way asking whether it was OK to shut down particular services (eg: postgresql) while it upgraded them, and I think that would be the one thing that wasn’t absolutely perfect: I would have liked a way to say Yes to all of those prompts in one hit (or say Yes, and don’t ask me again), rather than being asked again and again. That’s a really tiny niggle though.
Overall, the whole Ubuntu team have done a brilliant job with the upgrade mechanism.
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