Upgrading to Ubuntu 8.04?

[Andrew Mathenge]

Hello,

You're not alone. I had the same problem. In my case, I was able to
hack a completed install from Gutsy (7.10) to Hardy (8.04). The
resulting system was not pretty.

You can see other people's attempts here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=768727

This was a pretty common issue with this upgrade. I eventually backed
up my personal files to DVD and then did a clean install.

The reason that you're seeing the pending updates is because your
/etc/apt/sources.list file now points to Hardy repositories. You will
need to get a clean /etc/apt/sources.list file.

Switch to the folder /etc/apt.
Check if there is a backup of the /etc/apt/sources.list, if so, open
it in an editor and make sure that the repositories point to Gutsy. If
you can see references to "hardy" in that file, then you'll have to
get a copy of a good /etc/apt/sources.list file before any of those
updates disappear.

I have one since I have a Gutsy (7.10) system as well. I can send it
if you're absolutely stuck and don't have a backup of your own.

Good luck.

Andrew.

On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Alfred <alfred.s at nexicom.net> wrote:
>
> Hi:
>
> I've never done this before, that is upgrade Ubuntu over top of the
> previous version. I bought the 6 DVD set, from www.thelinuxstore.ca due
> to not having high speed. I Put the install disk in the drive to see
> what was on it, if there were some docs to read, on how to do this.
>
> A Dialogue Box came up and said  "Would you like to upgrade, and have
> all the Email etc transferred to the new version". After upgrading with
> all 190 upgrades for Ubuntu 7.10 on Dial up, I figured lets give the 8.04 Upgrade
> a try. Well it said it was testing the Repositories, and then it
> crashed. Trouble is when it tried this again, it had read the index
> files on the first DVD, and I used Synaptic to load the data and DVD
> names to use the DVD's as Repositories. When I tried to do the update
> the Auto upgrade could not be found, and now there were 577 Updates in
> Update, but very few of them were checked, and an error message said
> that this could happen if the previous attempt was incomplete. Is there
> some way to restore Updater to no updates, in other words get rid of
> the 577 updates listed in it, so that I might be able to try this
> again, that is do the upgrade of 7.10 to 8.04, over top of 7.10? Is
> there some flaw in this Upgrade Software? Why does it crash?
>
> Alfred!
>
>
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