Upgrading Argo: Grump

[mdlbear]

Well, the flakiness seen yesterday expanded into full-blown falling-apart today: I couldn't even boot. And I'll note in passing that an 8-day-old install CD of Hardy alpha required 600-odd updates. I don't think it's stable yet. I'm going to assume both that the drive is unhappy, and that Hardy Heron isn't ready; I put the old drive back.

On the plus side, I found the install disk for my 802-11g wireless card, and it worked in the Win98 partition. So the machine will be usable regardless. At some point I'm going to try both Gutsy (from the text installer) and Lenny. But not right now: there's a lot on my schedule today.

Comments

Workaround for and explanation of Glibc problems

[(Anonymous)]

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2008-March/000401.html

Re: Workaround for and explanation of Glibc problems

[mdlbear]

This is weird -- it's not obviously spam, but on the other hand it has nothing at all to do with the problems I was seeing, which seem to be purely hardware. (The problems I'm seeing now are software, but it's too late to fix them.)