Yes, but it also sounds like this.

Very odd, I did this, it seemed to install all of the packages, but didn't flash the new kernel, so I'm still running 4.2008.30-2 with many packages updated to today's release. Anyone have suggestions for me? Very very odd.

Ugh.. and there's that goddam Rhapsody installer again. It's bad enough that here is no convenient uninstall in the Application Manager, you have to delve into the command line. And this time, apt-get remove rhapsody-installer doesn't get rid of it like it used to. I wish Real goes out business. The difficulty in removing their installer is obnoxious and makes me hate them even more than ever.

By the way, kernel changes.

Not sure. Updated my post to reflect my use of n800.

Thanks for asking this. I was just about to try this with my N810 booting from internal card. Needless to say, I'd be interested in knowing the answer to this too.

There must be more factors at play here than just that one. For instance I never leave my tablets connected permanently, only on-demand (a habit left over from old 770 days :-). I had used the N800 for a while early this morning, then left it at home (I use the N810 on the go, still Chinook).
Tonight I connected it manually to my WLAN and within a few seconds had the flashing icon...

Otherwise the upgrade went swimmingly, although the tablet had seen quite a few packages installed and removed, and has a variety of nonstandard (Chinook & Diablo) repos (the N800 is my sandbox/testbed now). Apart from that it was a fairly vanilla Diablo install with no funky system mods. I just made sure it was well charged and had plenty of free memory. May be just dumb luck though...

Subjectively the results in the browser are a mixed bag. On some sites the improvement is barely perceptible if at all ; on others it is dramatic (Google mail for one, in all modes). Images definitely load faster, and flash (YouTube) is much better. I had fun watching the entire X-Space orbit launch, an historic moment.

Had to disable the contacts/Tableteer home applets, no big deal. SIP still works fine. Haven't tried Maemo Mapper yet.

Now I'm waiting for tomorrow to see if the "empty battery while doing nothing" is really gone this time :-)

How would updating in flash affect the updates on a dual boot partition? It seems to me that you would have to update from flash first, then from the partition you boot from later.

I don't know *how*, it just did. I updated flash, and then when I booted from the first time from SD, 4.2008.36-5 was automagically there. Nor was there any SSU update available from within app manager.