I notice your still back on hardy. I expect you will need to upgrade through jaunty and karmic to get to lucid. Its going to take some time. Probably best to wait until things quieten down. It took several attempts to download the packages yesterday due to high traffic.
Tim [email protected] writes: > Thanks Tim, > I was leaning towards do-release-upgrade because I'm a little more > comfortable with the comand-line than graphical applications. I think I'm > going to wait a couple of days before attempting the upgrade to let the > traffic through the repositories slow down. > > thanks:-) > > > Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:34:41 +1000 > > To: [email protected] > > CC: [email protected] > > Subject: Re:upgrading to lucid > > From: [email protected] > > > > > > I have always used do-release-upgrade. This morning, I used it to upgrade > > to > > lucid and all looks OK so far. > > > > I'm a bit old fashioned though. My main interface is based on emacspeak. > > I've > > not used orca that much. Therefore, I tend to use text based apps over > > graphics based ones, despite the fact I run under X. > > > > Tim > > > > [email protected] writes: > > > greetings, > > > I did some more research on how to update ubuntu distributions from the > > command line. The two options appear to be: > > > > > > (1) sudo update-manager > > > > > > (2) sudo do-release-upgrade -m desktop > > > > > > method 1 would just launch the graphical application from the command > > line (gnome-terminal) and in general is the recommended distribution > > upgrade method from the ubuntu wiki. I can't find much doccumentation on > > do-release-upgrade, are there any drastic differences btween what these > > two programs do? > > > > > > Does anyone have any advice on which is the better (faster? more > > accessible?) method for updateing my Ubuntu system to lucid? > > > > > > Thanks:-) > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > > The New Busy is not the old busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your > > inbox. > > > > > http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_3 > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > > > Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility > > > > -- > > Tim Cross > > [email protected] > > > > There are two types of people in IT - those who do not manage what they > > understand and those who do not understand what they manage. > > -- > > Tim Cross > > [email protected] > > > > There are two types of people in IT - those who do not manage what they > > understand and those who do not understand what they manage. > > _________________________________________________________________ > The New Busy think 9 to 5 is a cute idea. Combine multiple calendars with > Hotmail. > http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?tile=multicalendar&ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_5 -- Tim Cross [email protected] There are two types of people in IT - those who do not manage what they understand and those who do not understand what they manage. -- Tim Cross [email protected] There are two types of people in IT - those who do not manage what they understand and those who do not understand what they manage. -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
