View Full Version : [ubuntu] No Upgrade Option - 10.10 Alternate Disc
miserly-martyred
July 3rd, 2011, 01:10 PM
I followed the official Ubuntu instructions that tell you to do this when things don't just "give a pop up prompt"
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MaverickUpgrades
It told me to do this:
gksu "sh /media/cdrom/cdromupgrade"
and said that was in case:
"If the upgrade dialog is not displayed for any reason, you may also run the following command using Alt+F2:"
Well, I did that and it said along the lines of this:
" /bin/sh, etc. sh not found" ... "gksu, command not found"
Is there a way around this or am I just friggin' insane?
miserly-martyred
July 3rd, 2011, 02:26 PM
I also just tried unplugging every single storage medium and hard drive from in/out of my computer.
When I booted up the Alternate CD it still did not detect the system, of just Ubuntu 10.04 on there.
I have also used the Rescue Mode on the Alternate CD and the standard "single user - recovery only" mode from the GRUB boot loader.
When I used those modes, I did this:
[as root]: apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
As I tried to do those, apparently my old sys. is set to use:
ftp.ussg.iu.edu:http
That situation is denied by my system and it says:
No such address found on that host.
Is there a way that I can use one of these terminal methods to do a net. install, successfully, by changing repositories?
I don't know how to switch repositories from command line...
dino99
July 3rd, 2011, 07:38 PM
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/Netboot
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/MinimalCD
miserly-martyred
July 4th, 2011, 02:42 AM
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/Netboot
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/MinimalCD
I appreciate the tips, but I went alone and figured some stuff out and used the nano txt editor to mess with my sources.list file.
I have adjusted the mirror and reset things to a repository that actually works. But then I am denied the ability to save cuz my file system says that it's read only.
I have done all of this other stuff while having ALREADY logged in to the console with root :(
Isn't there something one can do with the init file permissions to change this? I'm trying to figure out what issue is triggering the denial of any write access.
Any ideas?
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