Share with the community your gutsy install/upgrade experience

[A$h X]

Went from feisty -> gutsy, Took about 2 hours 30 minutes.

[SamPaschke]

I am a complete newb to Linux. I have installed gutsy on three hard drives now. The only problem that I have encountered was when I wanted to remove Vista from my laptop and replace it with Ubuntu. It was a complete pain in the butt. I really like what I have seen thus far and can totally see myself moving away from windows. Thanks very much for the great OS.

[actionjeans]

Getting emasks error on either the live CD or alternate installer. I've tried 3 different cables, 3 different CDROM drives, burnt the CD's on 3 different burners, used 5 different types of media; NADA...

I can however install Edgy just fine. SO..... I am forced to install Edgy, run update to Feisty, and run update to Gutsy. Cool that that's an option, but sad that I have to do it like that. Takes forEVA.

Seriously, I would have thought this would have been fixed by now. I had the same problem either any install CD with Feisty.

Nothing special on my system config. Old SIS IDE chipset (630 I think), 1.4ghz PIII, onboard SIS video.

If you can't get this fixed guys, it's a big deal; as much as I like the distro, if I need to reinstall and have to go through this again, I won't be back.

[jonelnz]

Hi Everyone...I´m new to Linux but have been using Dos, OS/2 and ******* since um...well you know, a long time.

Ubuntu...what a kick *** OS. I absolutely love it!

About a month ago I downloaded and installed Gutsy into my (wait for it) PII 533 celeron machine with 128 MB RAM - 40GB HD - Matrox G200 Vid - ABIT 440BX MOBO. (had this for ten years)
Yeah OK you can stop laughing now. The install (Alternate CD) went flawlessly... ******* boot speed, but flawlessly.
Played with that for a couple of weeks, but after reading all the posts about Compiz I knew it was time to Upgrade.

Gutsy is now warm and cosy inside my new HP Pavilion a6260a.
Many many thanks to everyone here, yep I read read read and read, then when I´m done reading... I read.

[kanh]

I upgraded from 7.04 to 7.10 as instructed on the web site and everything seems to work except the wireless card. The card is a Linksys WPC11 ver 4 and when I try to activate it the system crashes and the caps lock and scroll lock lights start flashing. Any ideas? Thanks

[pcolamar]

Hi,
I did the step up twice and all worked fine.
"Twice" means, I upgraded all the way from Dapper -> E. -> F.-> Gutsy in one night in one of the partition and I was so happy of the result (installing the restricted driver for the Wlan card and ATI card) that I decided to wipe out everything and install a fresh Gutsy from CD.

Gutsy is running now on both my desktop and laptop.

In particular thanks to wine I am now using Ubuntu 90% of the time. (1st time in 10 years)
I hope to switch completely when I will have solved :

- my Wammu-Nokia 5300 issue
- an annoying spreadsheet Openoffice limitation.
- suspend/resume problem

Thanks to all Ubuntu and Debian crew and Forum members.

Palmer

[Mark_in_Hollywood]

Something is broke. I have used Ubuntu since Breezy. My printer always was found the correct driver(s) installed and the printer PRINTED.

On a clean install on a bare metal drive, Gutsy cannot set the printer up. Oh yea, sure, all the icons, settings, config data . . . everything to do with printing was there and the printer should have worked as it always has in the past.

I came to the Forums Search box and searched the keywords gutsy printer. that search returned 131 posts. About 15 of them appeared promsing. Of those, 2 only had relevant information and neither of those two worked.

What the hell happened? When will this be fixed? And how on earth am I to know what to do?

I'm a "guardian and conservator" of a relative. If I can't print, I can get in legal hot-water. I suppose I will be emailing docs to friends for support, but this issue is unacceptable. It needs priority fixing as I know I'm not the only user with this problem.

Thanks, community.

[drbusch]

7.06->7.10
X60 Lenovo laptop
1) NetworkManager is working fine, according to the logs, processes, etc, but I can't connect to wireless networks and the toolbar icon is gone.
2) When connected to a desktop monitor, the screen resolution sometimes goes to the lowest possible. sudo killall gdm; sudo gdm resolves the issue.
3) Sometimes at startup, I get a high pitched squeal from the speakers. restarting gdm fixes this, usually.

[benzs_s]

Well, it installed. Only the rt73 wireless driver is still buggy, and the seamonkey one wouldn't work. This meant that I could only get connected to the internet 20 minutes at a time between restarts, which in turn meant I couldn't really test other aspects of the system.

Basically I ran back to Feisty squealing like a little girl from the train wreck that was Gutsy + my PC.

edit: I should point out that, apart from having to compile the seamonkey rt73 driver myself, feisty works 'out the box'. Gutsy...really didn't.

[ingoldsby]

So far I have been unable to install