On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Jeremy <tclug at lizakowski.com> wrote: > > I was using the Ubuntu Jaunty Alpha's, and they were better and more stable > than Intrepid. It's a good upgrade from Intrepid. > > However, just before the beta, the last alpha I believe, an update rendered > the computer non-bootable. I tried booting from the CD, then chroot to the > partition. I told dpkg to finish whatever it was doing - no change. I suspect > an apt-get upgrade might fix it, but that would require more than a chroot to > get network access and all the config files mounted. > > Is it worthwhile to use the CD, go to init 1, chroot, then go to init 3, and > try run apt? Will that get the network running in the chroot jail? > > Or, would it be faster to backup our home directories (less than 1GB) and > resinstall? I'm leaning towards that solution, since this machine needs to be > running. > > Jeremy > Yes, I know, it said not to use alphas with a production box... I'd go with the backup and reinstall route. You'll have less downtime that way, and way less frustration. -- Tony Yarusso http://tonyyarusso.com/