[clug] upgrade to ubuntu 7.10

Chris Smart chris at kororaa.org
Wed Oct 24 06:35:07 GMT 2007


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Peter Anderson wrote:
> Colleagues,
> 
> Has anyone else had problems with the Install of "Gutsy"? I downloaded
> both the "Live CD" and "alternate" versions of Ubuntu 7.10 (Internode
> does not count downloads from their mirror against your monthly
> allowance - very nice thank you Mr Internode!) and have had problems
> with *BOTH*. They get to the stage of "Configuring apt" ... "Scanning
> the mirror..." and just hang. When I Googled the previous quotes there
> seems to be lots of people having the same problem. The consensus seems
> to be there is a problem with the install scripts when using ADSL to
> connect to the mirrors but I can't vouch for that.
> 

I had this problem at work. Do a 'command line install' instead of
booting the livecd and then when you've booted to it, run: sudo aptitude
install ubuntu-desktop

That works for me.

- -c
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