Well, here goes...

[YourSurrogateGod]

I just burned an ISO on a CD of Dapper and I'm currently backing stuff up on my external hard-drive. Wish me luck on the install.

[fuscia]

go for it. safer than driving.

[bored2k]

Bonne chance. Or at least, I so wish you have better luck with Dapper than I've had. Ugh.

[bored2k]

Whoa. I remember the time when I inmediately associated "burning a CD" with piracy, specially when burning an operating system. Long live Linux :D.

[YourSurrogateGod]

Whoa. I remember the time when I inmediately associated "burning a CD" with piracy, specially when burning an operating system. Long live Linux :D.
Heh, true. I just finished and it's pretty sweet. I still need to do alot of changes and updtates. Is there an FAQ like there was one for 5.04 and 5.10?

[cstudent]

Congrats YSG!

I upgraded my laptop the other evening to Dapper. There wasn't anything on the Ubuntu drive I wanted to keep, so I did a clean install. So far everything is running great. I used the new Automatix deb to install a lot of the things I like and then I went into Synaptic and got the rest. There is a cool new feature to Synaptic that I'm going to use when I get ready to upgrade my desktop. Under the File menu there are options to create a download script and install downloaded deb files. I generated a download script for the additional packages I installed through synaptic. I'm going to modify it and the Automatix script to create my own install script for my desktop upgrade. It ought to be fun.

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[YourSurrogateGod]

Bonne chance. Or at least, I so wish you have better luck with Dapper than I've had. Ugh.
Everything seems to be going fine so far. There are a few things that I'm just ironing out. I've had some problems installing the Nvidia graphics drivers, but other than that, nothing out of the ordinary of what I'd expect.

[John.Michael.Kane]

YourSurrogateGod let us know how, and if you get the nv graphics going. i got hold of an nv based board with on board graphics, and wonder how easy it is to install the drivers.

[YourSurrogateGod]

YourSurrogateGod let us know how, and if you get the nv graphics going. i got hold of an nv based board with on board graphics, and wonder how easy it is to install the drivers.
Well, I encountered initial problems simply because I wasn't following directions :roll: . When I tried to restart X server, it crashed and didn't want to restart. I then booted into XP, read up more about this online and figured that the best option would be to uninstall the drivers and start from scratch. When I booted into Ubuntu, lo and behold, the X server was working. I then proceeded to start from scratch and install the drivers to the very end (I figured that I didn't need to actually remove them, just go over the existing procedures and that would continue wherever it was that I left off.) After that I restarted the X server thingy and it worked.

Yes, I know, it's pretty long-winded :) .

[John.Michael.Kane]

YourSurrogateGod ok so you was kinda able to get nvidia graphics working out of the box. i'm gald it worked. i will see how things turn out on the system i'm getting going.

thanks.

[YourSurrogateGod]

The re-draw speed seems awfully slow on my machine when compared to 5.10, so I don't know if I should put in the old drivers and reinstall from scratch.

[YourSurrogateGod]

What's cool is that the sound mixing seems to have worked out of the box. I didn't have to do anything, now if only xine would behave...