Results of my Dapper Install

[Me - Atlantic]

After a bit of trepidation, I decided to start my upgrade experiences
from Breezy to Dapper.  Even though I'd been seeing alot of issues, the
changes looked promising.  My first re-install (yes, fresh install - no
upgrades on distro's) started with a full backup both as an image and as
a tarball.  Then, I plugged in the Dapper CD and switched to CD-BOOT.
Here are the notes I took...
/casper/vmlinuz - hehe: a friendly ghost

initial load of needed services to install - OK
ERROR!
hw_random: cannot enable RNG, aborting

mount: function not implemented

CHECK dmesg - there were other errors that flew by too fast...

Default kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz boot=casper
initrd=/casper/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=1048576 root=/dev/ram rw quiet
splash --

found 5 instances of this -
**** SET: Misaligned resource pointer: cfee85c2 Type 07 Len 0
**** SET: Misaligned resource pointer: cf9c41c2 Type 07 Len 0
**** SET: Misaligned resource pointer: cf9d21c2 Type 07 Len 0
**** SET: Misaligned resource pointer: cfa98bc2 Type 07 Len 0
**** SET: Misaligned resource pointer: cfa988c2 Type 07 Len 0

hrmm... Need to find out what these are all about

The installer found the wireless, webcam and the usb stick!!! WooT!!!

Double-Clicked Installation
(1) Choose Installation Language (English)
(2) Where are you? (New York Selected with EDT), Time is correct
(3) Which layout is most similar to your keyboard? (American English)
(4) Name: John
    Login name: gymsmoke
    Password (Entered twice) *************** (yeah, i'm paranoid)
    Computer Name: Nebo
(5) /dev/hda (IDE1 Master (hda)- 40.0Gb IC25N040ATMR04-0
    /dev/sda (SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) - 32.8 Mb USB NAND FLASH DISK

Automatic partition

Erase entire disk: IDE master (hda) - 40Gb IC25N040ATMR04-0

Language: English
Keyboard layout: us
Name: John
Login name: gymsmoke
Location: America/New_York
Partitioning:
If you continue, the changes listed below will be written to the disks.
Otherwise, you will be able to make further changes manually.
WARNING: This will destroy all data on any partitions you have removed
as well as on the partitions that are going to be formatted.

The following partitions are going to be formatted:
partition #1 of /dev/hda as ext3
partition #5 of /dev/hda as swap

=> [Install] (about 16 minutes on the timer)

Shutdown - Restart

Stopping RAID monitoring services... [fail]

Shutting down LVM Volume Groups... [ok]
mount: Function not implemented
Please remove the disc, close the tray (if any) and press ENTER:
* Will now reboot
Default kernel: 2.6.15-23

open a terminal
sudo bash
apt-get update
Err [URL]
Temporary failure resolving '[URL]'...
(Networking is NOT running) - GRRR
Go into networking admin and set up ether connnections properly!
(Update manager isn't showing in the desktop)... odd
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
WOW! - 126 upgrade packages - 154 Mb...
reboot with all updates installed...
Kernel release: 2.6.15-26

34 minutes from scratch to working... not bad