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... On Sunday 19 April 2009 11:27:56 am Tony Yarusso wrote: > On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 9:18 AM, John Gateley <tclug at jfoo.org> wrote: > > Is anyone going with expertise at VMWare? I tried installing the > > beta on my macbook (vmware fusion) but had no luck with the tools. > > I certainly wouldn't call it expertise, but I did succeed in > installing a previous Ubuntu version in VMWare Fusion and might be > able to remember what I did, and hope to be present for at least some > portion. I think it involved compiling some stuff manually, which it > really shouldn't, but may have been what worked at the time.