Updating my Ubuntu Backup OS
The guys over at Ubuntu released their new Version 7.10 (Ubuntu versions are named year.month) today. So I thought I’d upgrade my backup installation.
I always keep a Linux system on a separate hard disk. This is quite important for me, as it’s my only sheet anchor when I mess up my Windows installation or my hard disk crashes. This Linux system is a clean Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn with some Compiz desktop effects from a 3rd-party-repository - no need for special software here, as I hardly use the system at all and Ubuntu comes with almost everything you usually need.
So Ubuntu 7.10, codename “Gutsy Gibbon” was released today, and as I always like to live at the edge, I thought I’d upgrade - well, at least I tried. The update manager stopped responding multiple times when trying to download the updater script. A quick Google search, let’s see how the servers do this… there’s a command-line tool called do-release-upgrade, maybe this one is more stable?
First it seemed it was not, since it took about 5 minutes just to find that there’s an upgrade, but it did the job or at least does it until now, and I’m already at downloading packages. At the moment of writing, I’m downloading libcroco3 (whatever this is - funny name, though).
New post will follow once the system is running Gutsy Gibbon.