[CoLoCo] is hardy fairly stable or not

[Jim Hutchinson]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Manfred Meiser <mamei at netzero.net>
wrote:<http://mcburnett.org/neal/>

> I'm running Hardy since Alpha 2 came out without any negative side
> effects. No data loss, all common applications like office and firefox are
> working fine.
>
> Like Andrew mentioned booting seems to be faster and when popped in while
> windows is running you get the option to install "Open Office" or "Firefox"
> into Windows. This is a good(3 step)feature to give hard core Window users
> an option to install free software without installing a new operating
> system. The next steps would be the Ubuntu live CD and then Ubuntu install
> option.
>
> I don't remember that Wubi install was an option but that may have changed
> meanwhile. Firefox was upgraded in Alpha 5 to Firefox3 without problems. The
> only problem I encountered is that "Supertux" isn't running right, daahh ;),
> what is really essential for my 4-year old little guy.


I think wubi is an option but I don't have windows so I can't check. I think
I read that though.

Thanks for the info. I got impatient and went ahead and installed it two
days ago. My gutsy install was broken (thanks mdadm) and I was using a
backup install (doesn't everyone have one?). I decided to go ahead and wipe
out the raid drives. I installed on one and then the other. I now have 1
gutsy and 2 hardy :). That wasn't the plan but I didn't want to kill the
primary raid drive until I knew everything was backed up. I used rsync to
copy everything from broken gutsy raid drive to fix hardy drive. Then I
installed hard on broken raid drive and copied it all back (of course I
never touched the backup gutsy install - it's there as a fall back and also
contains nearly all my data).


>
> So Jim, if you wanna go for it you don't have to worry about too much.
> Maybe just wait for the Beta release in a week or two. Of course a data
> backup is a very good idea but I know you'll do that anyway. BTW, my choice
> of data backup is rsync from the command line whenever I feel it's
> necessary, it's quick and easy.  If that's too much work use the cron
> option.
>
>
Yeah, I have backups. See above :). I just wanted something automated since
all my backups now are manual and it's becoming a mess.

-jim

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