My easiest upgrade ever – Ubuntu 6.10 to 7.04

Posted by The Technocrat | Filed under GeekLimit News, Operating Systems

First of all, sorry for not posting in a while. Vacation, work stuff, wife surgery, etc. I’ll post the backlogged stuff I have in the admin backend, I promise.

Anyway…

My first upgrade on Ubuntu has gone off without a hitch. I’m continued to be impressed by how well everything works on Ubuntu, after using Windows my entire professional life. I’ve continued to admin a network of 400 machines and 1200 users, and have only needed Windows once, to get a screenshot.

Unbeleivable. Congrats to Mark Shuttleworth and all the Ubuntu dev’s for a fantastic product. I continue to have the hardest time explaining why my IT-based friends should at least give the LiveCD a shot. They don’t know what they’re missing…

I followed some great insrtuctions here. I used the apt-get method, but had to make a few changes, since the ‘sed’ command didn’t work for me… Here’s what I did:

  1. Open Terminal
    1. sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
    2. (enter your password)
    3. (sources.list opens)
      1. Click the ‘replace’ button and replace all ‘edgy’ with ‘feisty’ (no quotes)
      2. Save and close
    4. sudo apt-get update
    5. sudo apt-get dist-upgrade (say yes to everything)
    6. reboot

done. If you want to test it, you could give the terminal a: sudo lsb_release -a

Comments (4) | April 19th, 2007

4 Responses to “My easiest upgrade ever – Ubuntu 6.10 to 7.04”

  1. Matt Polito Says:
    April 20, 2007 at 9:59 am

    I upgraded my Ubuntu to Feisty and now it says that X server won’t start :-( I’ve got to figure that out!

  2. Dan Says:
    April 20, 2007 at 5:06 pm

    Uh oh! Standard install?

  3. Dan Says:
    April 24, 2007 at 2:57 pm

    7.04 has an issue with ATi x**** cards. It will be worked out shortly, I’m sure. In the meantime, here is how to get 7.04 working:

    http://www.mikesplanet.net/2007/04/installing-ubuntu-704-ati-x-cards/

  4. Lorena Saurel Says:
    April 12, 2010 at 10:29 am

    Thanks a bunch! That was really informational, I just Dugg your website url.

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