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Ubuntu mirror problems
When I started what I thought would be a simple update of a few of my Ubuntu server virtual machines I didn’t know how much trouble the mirrors would give me. For a start, the sg. mirror failed to load completely. Then I found some info about ec2 mirrors, but they gave me Hash Sum …
Kernel hording
After my previous successful and speedy upgrade I thought I would continue to the 12.04 precise. However, I found myself running out of space of the /boot drive. That left me wondering why I made it this small but I think it is really a default setup. This is the message I saw when performing …
Ubuntu release upgrade
After my previous problem trying to update my Ubuntu server running 10.04 I tried to do a release upgrade. Before I was able to do this I had to change the sources.list again, this time I used the mirror schema as recommended here. Old: deb http://ap-southeast-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid main restricted deb-src http://ap-southeast-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid main restricted New: …
Ubuntu repository Singapore failures
I just notice that when trying to update some of the Ubuntu server I have running that they can not find the archives. This is the error I get: Err http://sg.archive.ubuntu.com lucid Release.gpg Could not connect to sg.archive.ubuntu.com:80 (111.90.255.252). – connect (111: Connection refused) I found some info about archives being hosted on the Amazon …