Comments on: Upgrading the MPC-L from Feisty

By: Viglen MPC-L Useful Commands and Tips | Chris Dalby Untangles Networks

Viglen MPC-L Useful Commands and Tips | Chris Dalby Untangles Networks — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:14:40 +0000

[...] to download the right distro and upgrade in the right way. I followed the excellent blog post by Nicholas O’Leary and Andy Stanford-Clark’s Hints and Tips for Ubunu on a Viglen. Both these posts saved me a [...]

By: Damian

Damian — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 07:22:38 +0000

I’ve posted on our blog about installing Ubuntu (8.04, not xubuntu) onto an MPC-L. Runs very slowly, but is an interesting experiment none the less. The video drivers caused the biggest difficulties…
http://blog.jaytag.co.uk/index.php/archives/176

By: John Meredith

John Meredith — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:50:17 +0000

Thanks for your information. I wanted to get openssh-server and x11vnc running on my MPC-L but couldnt update anything on Feisty! Upgraded successfully, thanks!

By: Andy S-C

Andy S-C — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:46:21 +0000

trackback link from http://stanford-clark.com/viglen.html

By: Andy S-C

Andy S-C — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 09:54:12 +0000

You can also do the upgrade from no-longer-supported versions using the “old-release” repositories…

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GutsyUpgrades

You point /etc/apt/sources.list at the “old-release” repository for feisty per the instructions given, and then do the upgrade.. and it works!

By: Scott Clee

Scott Clee — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:16:56 +0000

These instructions worked perfectly. Thanks for taking the time to write it up (and for using a search friendly title!).

By: Chris Dalby

Chris Dalby — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 11:38:01 +0000

thanks for the post Nick. My MPC-L arrived this week too and I spent a couple of hours failing to install or update from the repository. This post answered all of the questions I had, Now to try the upgrade

By: nick

nick — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 10:18:33 +0000

@Gareth – when did you upgrade? Although Feisty went out of support in October, I don’t know when exactly the repositories became unavailable.

By: Gareth Jones

Gareth Jones — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 09:59:39 +0000

I upgraded using the normal process straight from Feisty (apt-get dist-upgrade). Had to do it separately for each new version all the way up to 8.10 but I didn’t have to get the CD or doing anything else different from normal. I did do it from the command line so that might have made a difference?

By: Andy Piper

Andy Piper — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 09:55:41 +0000

Hmm – now I’m trying to remember how long it was since I did the upgrade… I think I followed Popey’s instructions (or AndySC’s, or someone…) and it worked, but maybe it was that long ago now. I went through multi-step upgrades to 8.10 and it seems fine, although I’m kind of wondering whether I should have rebuilt myself an Ubuntu Server on 8.10 instead of sticking with Xubuntu and stripping stuff out later.