Newbie Preparing Dapper Flight 4 install.

Sasha Tsykin stsykin at gmail.com
Mon Feb 20 08:53:59 UTC 2006


Chris wrote:
> I tried installing Breezy on my Sony Vaio desktop. The install went well
> however, it froze after install on first boot.
> I did not give up tho - I installed Flight4 last night and it all works.
> Right down to the Intel HD sound card.
>
> I love it!  So, two questions.
>
> 1. Can DF4 be upgraded to the official release? If so, please point to 
> docs.
Not easily. That would be a downgrade. However, dapper is pretty stable, 
so I don't think you'll be unhappy
> 2. Had I stayed with Breezy, couldn't I have just booted DF4 LIVE and
> copied off that kernel to the Breezy install
> then boot and actually have Breezy working?
Yes, provided you changed the grub entries to point to the new kernel
>
> Please folks - bare with me. I have made a huge jump by dumping my
> FreeBSD 6 install in favor of
> Ubu. So far, I have not regretted it yet and I plan on keeping UBU on my
> box.
>
> Next, it will be onto my lappy, then my wife's PC.
Sasha




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