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[Braden Walters <meoblast@xxxxxxx>]

I'm talking about the mode where it upgrades everything off the disc if
it's present there, and upgrading everything else over the Internet.

On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 17:00 -0400, Jacob Peddicord wrote:
> Couple of issues here:
> 
> A) Upgrading from the CD is not a good option unless you have never
> installed any extra packages. It only brings core packages up-to-date.
> 
> B) You would want to complain to NVIDIA about this, considering they
> only offer a binary blob.
> 
> Jacob Peddicord
> http://jacob.peddicord.net
> jpeddicord@xxxxxxxxxx
> jacob@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> 
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Braden Walters <meoblast@xxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>         Ok, not to be a total downer, but Ubuntu 9.04 was a crash in
>         burn if
>         I've ever seen one. Within less than 24 hours of upgrading
>         I've already
>         experienced multiple problems. A) The system wouldn't update
>         properly
>         from the CD so my upgrade failed. B) nVidia drivers didn't
>         work without
>         modifications. I feel sorry for the Ubuntu noobs trying to
>         figure the
>         nVidia mod out. Guess I should have waited a few weeks before
>         upgrading.
>         
>         
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