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JumpForJoy
November 9th, 2008, 02:35 AM
Ok. Here the problem. I have recently installed hardy onto my comp. I duel booted it with windowns xp. Hardy crashed on login because some bug. Therefor I could never conect it to the internet. I would like to upgrade to 8.10, but the alternate CD just wants to partition my disk again. How can I upgrade hardy?
Sef
November 9th, 2008, 02:49 AM
I would like to upgrade to 8.10, but the alternate CD just wants to partition my disk again. How can I upgrade hardy?


1) Read this tutorial (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/IntrepidUpgrades) on upgrading.

2) Back up your data. No 100% guarantees that all will go well.

3) You don't have to repartition, but you will need to delete the current partition where Hardy is, and then install Ibex on it.
JumpForJoy
November 9th, 2008, 12:46 PM
1) Read this tutorial (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/IntrepidUpgrades) on upgrading.

Thanks. But, I have already read that tutorial and I need some more help. I can't do the recomended method, because I can't connect to the internet in hardy. In fact, I can't even log on in hardy because of
this (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=912978&highlight=login+screen+rejection). Therefor I am forced into useing the alternate CD or compleatly removeing Ubuntu hardy and on 8.10. If I try the alt CD method, I just wants to install 8.10 not update it. And I don't know when to press ALT+F2 like it says to in the tutorial. It also want to partition the disk again... As for uninstalling, I would like to try to get it upgraded instade.
Sef
November 9th, 2008, 02:01 PM
I would like to upgrade to 8.10, but the alternate CD just wants to partition my disk again. How can I upgrade hardy?

So did you follow 'Upgrading Using the Alternate CD/DVD' which is located in that tutorial?
JumpForJoy
November 9th, 2008, 08:40 PM
I tried to as best as I could. I first downloaded the alt CD. Then burned it. As I restarted my comp with it, it never offered to upgrade to 8.10. And I didn't know when to press ALT+F2. It just wanted to partition my disk again.
JumpForJoy
November 9th, 2008, 08:43 PM
I forgot to say that I downloaded it from here (http://ubuntu.cs.utah.edu/releases/intrepid/). Under alternate install CDs(3rd one). I then selected the first of the two downloads.
JumpForJoy
November 13th, 2008, 11:12 PM
Ok, I endded up deleating the hardy partition and just compleatly restarting. I used the 8.10 CD, and everything works great. SOLVED!