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2006-07-11
Pfft...upgrade time. I upgraded my three-year old PostNuke installation at curiousmath.com to the latest stable release (0.762). Which meant I also needed to upgrade my forum. There's an evening of my life I'll never get back. On the whole, I was happy with the old versions and content to let them run indefinitely. But thanks to a security hole which spammers started exploiting, I had to upgrade to fix it. On the other hand, I have to say the upgrade itself went smoothly. It just took a while to get it all done. However, I performed another upgrade that did NOT go so smoothly: Ubuntu Linux. I tried upgrading to Dapper Drake 6.06 only to find out I couldn't complete the upgrade because of this known issue. To fix it required rebooting from CD, logging in as root, moving two offending files, and restarting the upgrade. Oh, sure it makes sense now. But for Linux NubeBoob here, it took a couple of days to figure out how to do it. So, on the offchance that anyone will ever read this in a quest for help, allow me to present the following two key pieces of information:
1. If you need to create a bootable linux CD-ROM, you need to actually burn an ISO image onto the CD. Don't just add the ISO file as a data file.
2. If you need to boot into Linux as root from a CD-ROM, type "linux single"
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