Comments on How To Upgrade Your Desktop From Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) To 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)

I won't suggest upgrade Ubuntu using this kind of method. If you have a good internet connection then 'Yes' else this is killing and painful

This is a clean system upgrade that goes ok.

I had major problems with my installed apache2.

So, I still recommends to backup your /etc and /home prior to upgrading.

regards

svend 

For what it is worth I did the kubuntu upgrade to 7.10 using adept (you have to enable testing repositories if I remember correctly). It downloaded all files fine but hung up in the configuration. After numerous issues getting Adept to close down I just rebooted then did ctrl+alt+f1 and logged in. Here I did a dpkg auto configure recommended by apt-get dist-upgrade and followed through all the prompts to get a fully working upgrade.

Also remember that if you use nvidia/ati proprietary drivers that you need to get the most recent version of envy which supports 7.10 before hand and then run the envy -t at the command line to get your graphics back.  

You can no longer do a network upgrade of feisty: 

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/153980