[sclug] Upgrading to Ubuntu Gutsy (v7.10)

[Phillip Chandler]

My upgrade this afternoon was less that 750 megs. And total time
(download + Upgrade) was less than 2.5 hrs. But Im expecting some final
updates / upgrades on the 18th, when the final comes out.


On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 20:10 +0100, ed wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:56:16 +0100
> "Mayuresh Kadu" <mskadu at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Seems the rush has started:
> > 
> > http://www.thelinuxstore.ca/static/ubuntu_7_10_upgrade.html
> > 
> > I am going for it tonight.
> 
> Despite the rush, it seems to be flowing at a steady 2mibps, but a word
> of warning here:
> 
>   http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s102/edb3ta/ubuntu-upgrade-gutsy.png
> 
> It might not be a quick upgrade... I don't think this estimation
> includes the package configuration time, upgrading things like
> postgres/mysql databases can take a while, installing new kernels will
> also take a while... most of these things bottleneck at the HDD, dpkg
> doesn't thread that I'm aware of... That's probably a good thing...
>