[mythtv-users] mythBuntu problems 9.04 Alpha 2

[jedi]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 01:28:40PM -0500, John Drescher wrote:
> >> I upgraded my laptop to 9.04 a few weeks back to have ext4 support
> >> without rolling my own kernel and I have found that this has been a
> >
> >    Building your own kernel is a lot less trouble than messing with
> > an alpha version of your distribution. Just grab your .config file
> > from your current kernel headers directory and work from there.
> >
> Thanks.
> 
> I have built a kernel several hundred times on gentoo but I was not
> sure how ubuntu handled out of kernel drivers (virtualbox, vmware ...)

...well, of course if you stray from the reservation you will have
to rebuild those yourself. Still I think that would be less trouble
then what you're bound to run into with a new alpha of Ubuntu.

> so I thought upgrading would be safer since I had 8.10 on my laptop
> months before the release and all was well. I guess 8.10 was beta by
> then and not alpha though. Lesson learned.