Ubuntu 7.04

April 24th, 2007 by Borkur Steingrimsson

Refreshing Ubuntu

The new Ubuntu 7.04 (feisty fawn) is out. I used the built-in upgrade facilities to get the new release. After 2-3 failed attempts to get the full upgrade started, I finally got the pleasure of watching the download progress bar telling me that I had some 3 hours to wait. After downloading all the new packages and applying the upgrades, it was time for a reboot (the new version has a new kernel version as well). That’s where things got interesting. The menu.lst file for grub no longer looked right. It turned out to be looking for the root device on the wrong partition… Windows still booted fine. After trying a few combinations of drives and partitions I got it back up.

Some Icons have changed but on first glance I didn’t see all that many changes. I guess I will discover some as I go a long.

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Comments

  1. bob Says:

    April 24th, 2007 at 10:55 am

    I have a gateway that the wireless still doesn’t work with 7.04

    it’s a broadcom 802.11g network adapter

    is there a usb wireless that would work?

    I’ve tried linksys wusb54gv2

    no luck

    thank you

  2. Borkur Says:

    April 24th, 2007 at 4:10 pm

    Hi Bob.

    I don’t use any wireless card in my box, so I’m afraid I would be of little help. Your best bet is to head over to the guys at the forums . You should find someone there who has the same problem.

    g’luck!