-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 You should upgrade from 6.06 to 6.10 then to 7.04
You do not need a CD for this, just some bandwidth. In /etc/apt/sources.list change all references of dapper to edgy (then next time around change edgy to feisty). sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude dist-upgrade Since your install is this old, I would just reinstall clean. There are a ton of changes under the hood between 6.06 and 7.04 I just finished upgrading my Edgy install to Feisty. Since I tend to make a mess of my /etc/apt/sources.list if my upgrades are successful then yours should be too. To find your version, do: cat /etc/lsb-release You should see output similar to the following: DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=6.06 DISTRIB_CODENAME=dapper DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS" TekBudda wrote: > Well...I finally found a new hard for the IBM ThinkPad laptop I was given > from someone at work. I got the hard drive installed and it is > awesome...20GB of silent running sweetness. > > Then I said... great now I can finally have a portable Linux system to show > off to all my friends (both of them) adn wear my penguin colors proudly. So > I grabbed an Ubuntu disk I had sitting around (6.06); booted the system up > and the Live CD worked like a dream. I clicked the install icon on the > desktop and in less than an hour a working Linux box. > > Now I thought...hey...I have some time why don;t I try and up grade to 7.04 > instead of ordering a disk and waiting for it. So I downloaded the iso > overnight and burned a copy. Put the disk in the drive and booted up. It > comes to the proper screen but when I try and select any of the options it > looks like it is loading the Linux Kernal but stops and hangs at 3%. > > I thought...no problem I will try and install using the system tools, except > that I am not sure if I am going about this the right way. I found synaptic > package manger and added the cd-rom as a repository and added other > repositories as well. It looks like it might be downloading something but i > get a bunch of sources and packages that say hit or failed or done. I > assume the done ones mean those worked, but the other things I am not sure. > Does the failed mean that it can't find that repository or it failed in > downloading the package? Or something else completely? Also, when this all > finishes...how can I tell if I am running 7.04? > > If worse comes to worse I can always blow the drive away and start from > scratch with the 7.04 disk (assuming that it works), but I wold like to > learb the upgrading process as well. > > On a similar note...I was able to get some components and am building a > system for a friend at work. She is an overall tech nube and has troubles > with some of the basics even on windows. I told her if the syste i am > building had a windows key on I would load it for her because it is what she > is familiar with, but if not I would try a linux distro. It is for hoem and > she would only really be using internet, office & possibley graphics and > maybe eventually editing webpages. I was just going to load a bunch of open > source tools on a wndows box but I can't see a key so I it looks like it > might be linux. So now... what distro? Ubuntu? I have heard mint is good > (basically ubunutu with media support?). Any other suggestions? She is > mostly use to the WinXP box at work with Office 2003 and similar so I would > like to find something that would be a smooth transition for her. > > Any ideas welcome. > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGrPtSwRXgH3rKGfMRAriyAKCuOCj+93njYtn/cAOw7bdhRBTRJQCeLPAc DHTNn9EdB291gYWsZZf5Xss= =YvCL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
