View Poll Results: What was your gutsy install/upgrade experience ?

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  • Upgrade - worked flawlessly

    566 10.33%
  • Upgrade - worked but had few things to solve

    1,136 20.73%
  • Upgrade - got many problems that i've not been able to solve

    928 16.94%
  • Install - worked flawlessly

    639 11.66%
  • Install - worked but had few things to solve

    1,274 23.25%
  • Install - got many problems that i've not been able to solve

    936 17.08%
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Thread: Share with the community your gutsy install/upgrade experience

  1. #741
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    Apr 2007
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    Re: Share with the community your gutsy install/upgrade experience

    Quote Originally Posted by ephonk View Post
    Big problems with the Nvidia drivers for a few weeks now. It's been bad enough that I've re-installed XP while I figure out the problem. Found many write ups on Nvidia problems, but have had no success. Envy didn't help either. It all worked nicely in Feisty, but there's been no happy with Gutsy so far...
    UPDATE:
    Got some new info might help...
    I'm running this with a 52" HDTV as a monitor, which comes with a special set of challenges. Just found some info online about creating custom modelines for just this situation.
    Dunno why Feisty didn't seem to have a problem with this. It gave me 1280x720@60 with very little fuss. No sweat with XP either. But so it goes...
    So I might be back to Gutsy this week. Here's hoping.

  2. #742
    Join Date
    Jun 2007
    Location
    Ohio
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    30
    Distro
    Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon

    Re: Share with the community your gutsy install/upgrade experience

    I'm having a problem. Soon after the update starts, it stops and gives me these errors:

    Failed to fetch http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com/repo/di...86/Packages.gz 404 Not Found
    Failed to fetch http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com/repo/di...86/Packages.gz 404 Not Found
    Failed to fetch http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com/repo/di...rce/Sources.gz 404 Not Found
    Failed to fetch http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com/repo/di...rce/Sources.gz 404 Not Found
    Failed to fetch http://ntfs-3g.sitesweetsite.info/ub...86/Packages.gz 404 Not Found
    Failed to fetch http://ntfs-3g.sitesweetsite.info/ub...86/Packages.gz 404 Not Found

    Then it tells me this is probably a network problem, and to check my network connection and try again. As far as I can tell there is nothing wrong with my network connection. Is anyone else having this problem?

  3. #743
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    Re: Share with the community your gutsy install/upgrade experience

    Quote Originally Posted by MimeyNaomi View Post
    I'm having a problem. Soon after the update starts, it stops and gives me these errors:

    Failed to fetch http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com/repo/di...86/Packages.gz 404 Not Found
    Failed to fetch http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com/repo/di...86/Packages.gz 404 Not Found
    Failed to fetch http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com/repo/di...rce/Sources.gz 404 Not Found
    Failed to fetch http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com/repo/di...rce/Sources.gz 404 Not Found
    Failed to fetch http://ntfs-3g.sitesweetsite.info/ub...86/Packages.gz 404 Not Found
    Failed to fetch http://ntfs-3g.sitesweetsite.info/ub...86/Packages.gz 404 Not Found

    Then it tells me this is probably a network problem, and to check my network connection and try again. As far as I can tell there is nothing wrong with my network connection. Is anyone else having this problem?
    I think it is an issue at their end maybe?

  4. #744
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    Jul 2007
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    Vladivostok -> Edmonton
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    Xubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon

    Re: Share with the community your gutsy install/upgrade experience

    Perfect install on a brand new ASUS A8Sc. Got working wireless, webcam, bluetooth, correct 1280x800 resolution, localization out-of-the-box.
    Hardware:
    ASUS A8Sc 14" laptop, T7100 (1,8 Ghz, 2MB cache), 1GB Ram, 120GB HDD, NVidia GF8400 M, DVD-SMulti.

  5. #745
    Join Date
    Oct 2007
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    Re: Share with the community your gutsy install/upgrade experience

    Hi everyone,

    I installed 7.10 on two machines - both elderly, and with differing graphic cards - an ATI on mine, an nVidia 6800 on my daughter's.

    I had problems on each and was able to solve them using the resources on this forum. Simply, the restricted driver install didn't go smoothly, and both machines yielded an error when trying to install additional software on each machine (along the lines of "... software...not supported (i386)..." or similar. However, these issues were not major ones in my eyes.

    The strength of this community meant explicit, working instructions for each graphics chip were easily found, and the generous members shared their experiences and ideas so willingly.

    For these reasons, I shall persist with Ubuntu, and learn what I can and pass it on to others who need it. I feel it has the potential to compete with the might of the commercial OSs.

    I had real, frustrating issues with Feisty, and not enough time to address them, so waited for the newer version.

    I'd like to thank those who answered my posts earlier, and those who took the time to add to the forum their expertise. It is greatly appreciated.

    Regards,

    Michael

  6. #746
    Join Date
    Oct 2007
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    Distro
    Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon

    Vista boot corrupted + wireless rt73 issues fixed

    I've plenty of experience with linux ( not ubuntu) desktops and servers but notlinux on laptops I thought it would be a good idea to get some reference as to ubuntu in general ( every distro is different after all.. especially if you been doing installs since early slackware like I have)
    so I used this guide as a reference
    http://apcmag.com/5046/how_to_dual_b...nstalled_first
    pretty good can follow all that no problem

    apart from it says:-
    'On the "Ready to install" screen, you'll see that Ubuntu now has enough information to commence the installation. In the summary under Migrate Assistant, it should say "Windows Vista/Longhorn (loader)".'

    and I get well nothing ...

    eventually I decided yeah go through with the install, keep the vista loader and add ubuntu to it after
    put grub on the ubuntu partion. I did this because at worse case the vista loader should still work... (oh how wrong I was it turns out read on)

    The firstrun through the install I tried setting the grub to install on (sd0,4) as its a sata disk no dice it dies... hmm evidently the advice that grub refers to sata as sd rather than hd is wrong/out of date

    no reboot, still in the live cd, lets try again:-
    Tried again, irritatingly since I have a partion mounted as / it insists that it must be reformatted ... I could have saved a lot of time here had this not been the case the files were fine I just wanted to reinstall grub.. yes probably should do this via cmd line but ...
    installed grub on (hd0,4) works!

    reboot no vista at this point, used recovery disk to fix vista boot problems all now works.
    Kudos to Microsoft for making a tool that fixed this problem painlessly first time.( yes I dont say that very often)
    Other congrats for the EasyBCD program which make adding the entry to boot Ubuntu pretty trivial.

    Oddly when I do finally get to grub ( I kept the vista bootloader) it has 2 entries for vista go figure, I havent tried either yet but want to check the grub entries for what it thinks its going to do first.

    Plus sides

    I have got the RT73 wireless working using the serialmonkey driver followed these instructions

    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=400236

    Still didnt work at that point because my wireless network is on channel 13
    you need 2 extra lines in /etc/network/interfaces

    pre-up iwpriv wlan0 set CountryRegion=1
    pre-up iwconfig wlan0 channel=13

    Then it works! ( and how long did this take?)
    BTW Vista has the same problem with defaulting to Country Region 0 which is channels 1-11, its listed under the property CountryRegion11A on vista.

    Ubuntu with compiz and using the compiz manager is super shiny, better than vista by miles, more responsive whislt doing much better usabilty/eye-candy. You wouldn't think it was the same machine...
    For instance you can actually play an avi file across a wireless network without it stuttering every few seconds like it does in vista

  7. #747
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    Oct 2007
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    Re: Share with the community your gutsy install/upgrade experience

    Overall I still like ubuntu even though sometimes I have to reboot when it says could not find hard drive :/
    Have 3 kernels for some unknown reason
    flash drive can't mount anything
    and I have old CD-RWs (max speed 4x), for those who don't know I found out they don't work with the "middle" CD-RW drives( 12x- 32x write speed, not positive on the exact range but mine is one of them)
    BUT I was able to get C++ to finally work using Geany IDE!!! That's worth it to me. So I'm here on my island of programming. Guess I could email code

  8. #748
    Join Date
    Nov 2006
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    Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon

    Re: Share with the community your gutsy install/upgrade experience

    Finished the upgrade from Feisty to Gutsy about an hour ago. Really nothing to report. The process went very smoothly - it kept all my settings and non-repository install (as far as I can tell, nothing has come up yet!). So far so good

  9. #749
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    Re: Share with the community your gutsy install/upgrade experience

    Quote Originally Posted by ephonk View Post
    UPDATE:
    Got some new info might help...
    I'm running this with a 52" HDTV as a monitor, which comes with a special set of challenges. Just found some info online about creating custom modelines for just this situation.
    Dunno why Feisty didn't seem to have a problem with this. It gave me 1280x720@60 with very little fuss. No sweat with XP either. But so it goes...
    So I might be back to Gutsy this week. Here's hoping.
    Update to the update...
    The modeline stuff did not help either. So, I've reinstalled Feisty. Looks good at 1280x720 now. Now I have to decide if I'm going to Gutsy at all...

  10. #750
    Join Date
    Apr 2006
    Location
    Seine-et-Oise,France
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    Distro
    Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus

    Re: Share with the community your gutsy install/upgrade experience

    I just built myself a new computer:

    Intel Q6600 CPU
    Gigabyte P35-DS3P Mainboard
    Leadtek PX8600GT TDH (nVidia) video card
    Mushkin DDR2 RAM
    Seagate SATA hard discs
    Samsung SATA DVD writer

    I ordered an Ubuntu AMD64 disc from TheLinuxStore.ca and booted from it tonight.

    After partitioning the discs, while Ubuntu was installing, I visited a few web sites (running off the Live system). Rebooted from the hard disc, and everything just works!

    Sound, internet, external USB disc...

    I haven't tried printing, yet. The mainboard has a header for serial and parallel ports, but I don't have rear-panel connectors for them (they're on the way).

    Linux has never been this easy, and I've been in this world since 1996, through Slackware, RedHat and Mandrake (before it became Mandrive) as well as Ubuntu.

    I wasn't prompted to set a password for root during the installation. Luckily for me, Ubuntu put me in the list of sudoers; I used sudo to change root's password.


    Beef.
    Last edited by Keith_Beef; October 30th, 2007 at 02:44 PM.

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