Hey, just so you know ... this post is now about 14 years and 5 months old. Please keep that in mind as it very well may contain broken links and/or outdated information.

Last week, Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) was officially released so over this past weekend I went ahead and upgraded my server to the new version. As with my prior upgrades, I ran the process remotely over SSH (my server is a headless box sitting in a closet) and it was very smooth. The only minor problem I had was the initial download of the required packages failed, but I suspect that was because the Ubuntu site was being slammed with everyone downloading the new software. I restarted the upgrade several hours later, the downloads completed and the upgrade proceeded. After the release upgrade was done, I only had to put back a few minor tweaks and customizations (such as disabling IPv6), do a quick reboot, and the box was back in business.

I also grabbed the release version of the Netbook Remix since I had installed the beta on my EeePC earlier last month. I wasn’t able to get it to install, however: the system booted just fine from the USB drive where I extracted the ISO, but the installer would crash almost immediately with the following error: “Cannot mount /dev/loop1 on /cow.” I found this thread on the EeeUser Forums that seemed to think it was a problem using Ubuntu’s own USB creator utility to “burn” the image onto the thumb drive. So I used unetbootin to re-image the drive and that fixed the problem! Strange that Ubuntu’s own utility would have a problem like that.