Restore Dapper after Edgy

[NoOp]

Eddie Torres wrote:
> NoOp wrote:
>> NoOp wrote:
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>>> And after 8 hours, 47 minutes the upgrade crapped.
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>> And screwed up the system. Can't even boot it now. BTW: that was a
>> system that only had a very basic Dapper installed (w/all updates).
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> I always do a clean install with new releases, IMHO is the best way to 
> do it no matter what operating system is being used (except MacOS X).
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I ended up doing that on that machine via Edgy alternate install CD.
That was interesting...
[Tried to restore after the "upgrade" using that CD, but never managed
to get all of the dependency and other errors to clean up.]

- CPU fan now sounds like someone threw sand in it [1]
- PC wouldn't shut down without power button [2]
- failed to initialize HAL! error [3]

[1] Could be coincidence - it's an old 300Mhz CPU but odd that it
happened immediately after the Edgy install.
[2] Fixed by enabling ACPI in BIOS and modifying Grub menu to include
acpi=force
[3] Fixed from mods found in a linux forum and eventually here:
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/dbus/+bug/19577

6 hours later (from clean install) and the machine is finally starting
to settle down and look like it's workable.

For my other machines I'll just stick to Dapper for awhile...