Comment 42 for bug 930447

@ Peter Hurley and all concerned,

I'm not sure what could have gone wrong. I have no hardware that actually requires a non-pae kernel but I performed upgrade tests from desktop versions of both Oneiric and Lucid today and both remained non-pae. I simply used the command "update-manager -d -c" in both instances.

The Lucid was a fresh install of 10.04.4 and naturally began with an insignificant number of updates to Lucid itself before proceeding with the dist-upgrade, but all went well afterward. I did however file a bug report about wording of one of the dialogue prompts ....... minor, but I'm a whiner.

The Oneiric install was naturally a different story, still a fresh install but it wanted 341 updates before proceeding with the upgrade, so I edited the software sources to require only "important security updates" and reloaded which brought the requirement down to only 81 updates. Then a restart was required, following that I once again ran "update-manager -d -c" and the dist-upgrade completed just fine.

Note: Once Precise Beta 1 is released, or actually after each milestone release, you'd then want to drop the "-c" and rather just use the command "update-manager -d", but right now that would only give me Alpha 2 which was quite buggy for me, and it would of course require a sled load of updates.

I've never done any server work so I'm not sure how the procedure for the server edition might vary.

Testing is still ongoing with the non-pae mini.iso as I've requested some changes to 'tasksel'. I may not get around to retesting the mini.iso for nearly a week though.

I hope this might be helpful to someone.