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[dsiembab]

I'm just glad I upgraded last night

[vishzilla]

The upgrade to beta worked flawlessly. Didn't have any problem at all, its a great release!!! Cheers to the devs for their excellent work

[Therion]

Did a fresh install but still have one, big, problem that remains unresolved: Two optical (DVD-RW) drives that HH will not recognize. I could only do a fresh install once I removed the DVD-RW and replaced it with a DVD-ROM after reading about this problem elsewhere. Drive one is a Plextor 716A and the other a Sony DRU190. Both drives work fine in other PC's and were working fine under Gutsy Gibbon.

In Hardy, I can see the icon for the drive in Computer, but it won't allow me to mount the drive; whichever one is installed. Boot times are also signifcantly longer with a DVD-RW installed. Installing the DVD-ROM drive solves both issues. But of course it's a ROM; which obviously sucks.

Long story short neither of two entirely different DVD-RW drives will mount in Hardy. I'm stuck using an ancient, slow as molassses, DVD-ROM drive until a solution is found or I downgrade.

[bg1256]

I can't seem to find a "good" .iso image. The servers for North America are obviously under a lot of strain, and I haven't been able to find one there. I downloaded two different .iso's from mininova, but neither of those have worked either.

I put in the live CD, it gives me the initial screen, and I choose install. However, all I get is a screen that flickers with a bunch of colors. Then the CD drive stops spinning, and well, nothing. I'm trying to download a few new images now.

Hopefully it's just a bad image...

edit: and yes, I did select the option to check the CD for defects. None were found.

[dsiembab]

this may be a stupid question but after you upgraded did you reboot your computer my nvidia card wasn't recognized but after a reboot it found it.

Did a fresh install but still have one, big, problem that remains unresolved: Two optical (DVD-RW) drives that HH will not recognize. I could only do a fresh install once I removed the DVD-RW and replaced it with a DVD-ROM after reading about this problem elsewhere. Drive one is a Plextor 716A and the other a Sony DRU190. Both drives work fine in other PC's and were working fine under Gutsy Gibbon.

In Hardy, I can see the icon for the drive in Computer, but it won't allow me to mount the drive; whichever one is installed. Boot times are also signifcantly longer with a DVD-RW installed. Installing the DVD-ROM drive solves both issues. But of course it's a ROM; which obviously sucks.

Long story short neither of two entirely different DVD-RW drives will mount in Hardy. I'm stuck using an ancient, slow as molassses, DVD-ROM drive until a solution is found or I downgrade.

[bg1256]

Not a stupid question at all, but I'm actually doing a fresh install, not an upgrade. The problem is, it gives me the colored lines before giving me the "live" desktop, so I'm never actually able to go through the install process.

[dsiembab]

that was for therons problem, but I have to agree with you you got a bad burn on the live cd sometimes I get impatient and don't verify the written data too.

[timhodkinson]

Once I fixed a malformed line in /etc/apt/sources.list my upgrade when perfectly and quickly too.

I used the feature in Synaptic under "settings/repositories/download from/select best server" and took the one it said was fastest and then ran the Update Manager. This was around noon EDT (UTC -4) in Canada and I got a regular download rate of about 500kbps and downloaded everything in 30mins.

Last time when upgrading to Gutsy on the first release day, I used the Main Ubuntu server and it took 12 hours.

Another great job by the Ubuntu developers!

[djronh]

Monitor and graphics card not detected. Rest okay.
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg only reconfigures keyboard???????

My two solution's

1.Run sudo displayconfig-gtk which brings up a gui from which I could specify the required screen resolution and driver.

2.Copy xorg.conf from working ubuntu 7.10

My graphics are an onboard sis651 and a dell 19" crt monitor.

[bg1256]

that was for therons problem, but I have to agree with you you got a bad burn on the live cd sometimes I get impatient and don't verify the written data too.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it wasn't a bad burn but rather a bad .iso image. I burned it twice on slowest settings using imgburn in Windows, a very reliable program.

I'm downloading from ubuntu's site via torrent and via firefox atm.