Time to upgrade Ubuntu on my home boxes

Today I've decided that the time to upgrade Ubuntu Linux on my home PCs has come. Yesterday I received Ubuntu 7.04 and Kubuntu 7.04 CDs from Canonical.

I have two PCs at home: old AMD K6-2/350 MHz with 40 Gb dying primary hard disk (Windows 2000 is installed on it :)) and 6 Gb secondary drive, where Ubuntu 5.10 was installed, and newer Athlon XP 1800 with Ubuntu 6.10 on it.

It's a pity that you can not use live/install Ubuntu cd for upgrades :(

So I've decided to do dist-upgrade on newer PC and completely reinstall system on older. I've chosen Kubuntu for old box, because it includes Konqueror, which is more lightweight than Firefox.

Several hours ago I've back-upped all important data from my older pc and started installation of Kubuntu. I've already met several problems:

• I need to write acpi=force in the boot options of live-cd, because BIOS was released before the year 2000.


• Installer was unable to format partition into XFS because of some unknown error (possibly connected with dying primary drive), so I had to create partitions by hand using QParted.


• May be I'd better to write hda=noprobe boot option to prevent errors from accessing dying primary drive, but I haven't done it

Now the installation process is 94% complete.


And almost half of required packages have been downloaded on my newer PC through my slow 200 kbit ADSL connection.
So keep on touch with me, I will report the progress and problems!

Update 1:
The installation of Kubuntu is finished, now it is time to test the system and install additional packages.
I plan to install:

• LaTeX


• maxima


• developer's tools


• java


• Mp3 and dvd playback


• Open SSH

Update 2:
Installation of mp3 playback was really easy - I tried to play mp3 file and Amarok asked me to install mp3 support, I answered yes and in couple of minutes it started to play.
There were no problems with OpenSSH server too: sudo apt-get install openssh-server
But Adept apt front-end is really slow :(
Well, I installed almost everything I wanted, only couple of packages left.
And download of packages for upgrade on newer PC has not finished yet.

Update 3(next day):
All updates and installations are finished, and now I'm happy with two up-to-date systems.
Rhythmbox on my newer PC now plays last.fm. I'm also happy with kopete LaTeX plugin