[lug] How to upgrade Ubuntu Netbook Remix

Michael Hirsch mdhirsch at gmail.com
Mon May 17 11:08:53 MDT 2010


Sounds like my hardware is better supported (Acer AspireOne 250, I
think).  I don't think I've ever had a crash, so no fsck for me. I had
some wireless trouble, but once I got a kernel upgrade my wireless has
worked pretty well.

Maybe I'll try again tonight.

Thanks,

Michael

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Jeffrey Haemer
<jeffrey.haemer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Suspend works.  Neal Mc hibernates a lot, so that sucks for him.
> fsck gets really slow -- like 30' on my netbook.  I don't fsck much, but I
> used to force an fsck every boot, because I was getting a lot of crashing
> and filesystem corruption under 9.10.  It doesn't crash all the time now, so
> I can live with an occasional, pokey fsck.
>
> If you shut it down cleanly, it re-boots surprisingly quickly.
> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Michael Hirsch <mdhirsch at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Jeffrey Haemer
>> <jeffrey.haemer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I did a straight upgrade.  I think it's just that it's no longer called
>> > UNR:
>> > it's now "Ubuntu Netbook Edition."
>>
>> Okay.  So it installs the  right stuff after all.  That's good to know.
>>
>> > It was a substantial improvement for me.  Mine used to freeze up several
>> > times a day.  Now it's only once every few days.  Hibernate and "Kindle
>> > for
>> > your PC" (under Wine) no longer work on mine (Dell 1012), though.  I
>> > patiently await future bug fixes.
>>
>> Oog.  Loss of hibernate would really suck.  Wait--I think I mean
>> "suspend".  I never hibernate but I suspend frequently.  Does suspend
>> still work?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Michael
>>
>> > On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Michael Hirsch <mdhirsch at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I have a netbook running UNR 9.10, and I'd like to upgrade to Lucid
>> >> (10.4).  I ran the upgrade yesterday and it warned me that
>> >> ubuntu-netbook-remix was no longer supported.  Huh?
>> >>
>> >> I must be missing something.  Google doesn't provide any upgrade
>> >> process for UNR, so maybe I'm searching wrong.
>> >>
>> >> Anyone know the right way to upgrade URN?
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >>
>> >> Michael
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