Re: xubuntu to gusty

["Jerry Feldman-2" <user=4@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:56:17 -0400 
Jerry Feldman <[hidden email]> wrote: 

> On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:42:56 -0400 
> Jerry Feldman <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> 
> > On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 20:06:16 -0400 
> > "James Kramer" <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> > 
> > > I have Fiesty version of Xubuntu on my laptop.  Can I upgrade to Gusty by 
> > > editing sources.list and replaceing Fiesty with Gusty and then doing 
> > > sudo aptitude dist-upgrade? 
> > 
> > There is a detailed set of instrucitons on this page: 
> > http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading
> > 
> > It is very simple using the GUI: 
> > 1. run the Update Manager System/Administration/Update manager 
> > 1a. If your system is not up to date, you will be asked to update it to 
> > the latest feisty bits. 
> > 
> > 2. The Update Manager will then show that a new release is available, 
> > and you can click on that. Follow the onscreen instructions. The 
> > process takes about an hour or so. I was curious, to I just started in 
> > on my laptop. In the past I have done both Red Hat Enterprise and SuSE 
> > upgrades. SuSE upgrades have generally worked well, and Red Hat 
> > Enterprise upgrades were disastrous (different systems all but one done 
> > by different experienced IT professionals who knew what they were 
> > doing). 
> 
> Clock time was approximately 2 hours. There were some changes it wanted 
> to make, such as my ntp.conf file.