Comments on: How to Upgrade Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid) to Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty)

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:24:03 +0000

update-manager -d is correct. There is a space there. Now distribution 10.04 is available.

By: Leandro

Leandro — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:18:53 +0000

I think is update-manager -d if you want to upgrade to a newest version.

By: shivraj

shivraj — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:26:45 +0000

I am not getting option upgrade, on second step. In this case what can one do for up-gradation…

By: Help Mister Wizard!

Help Mister Wizard! — Wed, 27 May 2009 23:14:32 +0000

Hi all,
I have installed ubuntu Jaunty with the image from a CD. I then used the new distro for about 2 weeks. I was then doing some software updates with Syn. PKG Mngr, and saw an installed “item”, (I cannot remember its name) in my installed packages list. The description of this item said that it was a tracking package for users.
Being a newbie, I checked the box to remove this package as it sounded like something invasive. I was looking at the uninstall process in the black window & I saw it uninstalling programs that I did not want to uninstall. I quickly turned-off my power strip. I tried to reboot & it gave me the username window & then the password window.

After entering the information for these two windows, it seems to try to boot up, but then gave me a black window. I toiled for a few days on the ubuntu forums site & found no info that could help me get my successful install working again.

I then re-partitioned the remaining free-space & did another install. I am using a “dual boot” sytsem with winXP (Ubuntu is the default).

I have gotten that install running well, but some of my most valuable personal files are not accessible.

I can see the old install of 9.04 when the boot selection window comes up during boot-up. My newest install is on hda9 and the swap is on hda10.

Both installs of jaunty are sda3. I am needing a way to boot to the install of 9.04 that is on hda7 (the swap is on hda8).

It seems that the partition has been preserved, but I do not know how to get access to it to retrieve the lost personal files.

Can someone please shed some light on this matter.

Truck-loads of Thanks!

By: David jr.

David jr. — Tue, 26 May 2009 21:12:26 +0000

I installed my old ubuntu 8 disk and upgraded and it seemed that it worked, there were no errors. But, it still says its v. 8 and hasn’t made that many changes. Now on the update manager it doesn’t give me the option to upgrade. HELP

By: Tim Dowell

Tim Dowell — Thu, 14 May 2009 13:59:30 +0000

I’m running 8.x on a vista dual boot pc. I tried to upgrade by pressing the “Upgrade” button on the Update Manager, but after it gets the new package it says I don’t have enough space on /. I ran sudo apt-get clean and I’m still 300+m short on space. Not sure what to do or how to do it. Can someone offer advice?
Thanks.

By: Francis Heyrman

Francis Heyrman — Mon, 11 May 2009 18:25:05 +0000

I would like to upgrade from 8.10 to 9.04 over the internet but I have a dual boot system (xp and ubuntu) and wonder whether the upgrade procedure works with a dual boot system.

By: Ted Muralt

Ted Muralt — Sat, 09 May 2009 20:20:02 +0000

I upgraded May 8 and after a, seemingly successful, 13 hour download, my results, recover attempts and feelings were the same as Mikeydee below.The splash screen graphics is unreadable, therefore unusable (no response attempting old password).
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Mikeydee says:
May 7, 2009 at 9:41 pm

I tried to upgrade from Intrepid to Jaunty last night & it messed-up my computer to the point that the only graphics on my screen is a bunch of matted colors resembling the picture I had for my desktop background. I cannot even type my admin password into the terminal that is available when I pick the second choice down on the dual-boot menu. I think it says “log on to command line”. When the command line comes up, I am unable to type anything into the screen. I trustingly clicked the upgrade button (after seeing the upgrade button on my syn. packgage manager).
I foolishly did not back anything up…..DUMB, I know.
But, this done, how do I get out of this predicament? Is there any way of using a live CD to backup all of the stuff I had in my hard-drive?
………..or am I at a complete loss?
Any help or advice offered will be greatly appreciated. I certainly feel vulnerable using windows XP. Thanks!

By: Mikeydee

Mikeydee — Thu, 07 May 2009 22:22:51 +0000

I neglected to mention that I am running an HP with an AMD 64 aboard. I am really hoping to save the files & pictures I treasure. I also tried repair broken files under the restore window.
Eagerly awaiting some rescue help.
Again I am a rank newbie.
Thank You All

By: Mikeydee

Mikeydee — Thu, 07 May 2009 20:41:53 +0000

By: jack9

jack9 — Mon, 04 May 2009 16:10:02 +0000

Issues with Intel GMA 900!

I did an upgrade from 8.04 to 8.10 to 9.04. Everything worked just fine. Even 2D-graphics but i.e. openarena looks like a slideshow now. With 8.04 it was fast enough even with more details.
The GMA900 lives inside my HP DC7100.

By: Kailash C

Kailash C — Mon, 04 May 2009 05:48:30 +0000

Todd Lohenry,

try typing sudo update-manager -d

It will show u the the distribution available pop up window

By: 3yt6o1

3yt6o1 — Sun, 03 May 2009 23:43:53 +0000

great tutorial…
installed Jaunty successfully on my eeepc 1000h, its quite fast…
my problem is with my wifi on another laptop, a presario m2000, this is after installing Jaunty coming from an upgrade Ibex…any ideas? tnx

By: alper starr

alper starr — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:47:43 +0000

alternate cd fixed my whole problems with upgrade session. try the same commands with alternate cd you’ll see, they’ll work.

By: Marquis-boy

Marquis-boy — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:08:06 +0000

Would it not make sense to have the main Live CD also contain the “alternate” install contents?

It’s so obviously a common mistake for first time upgraders of Ubuntu (probably still quite new to it all), who are told that the new release Live CD they’ve downloaded (taking up precious quota) is the wrong one. Way to NOT be user friendly!

What’s the difference between the Live CD and the ALternate? Is it technically impossible to make one CD that suits both needs?

By: Todd Lohenry

Todd Lohenry — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:56:46 +0000

For some reason, my version of 8.10 does not have a button that says “new distribution is available”. How do I fix?

By: Liam

Liam — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:18:28 +0000

Hi there

Was wondering, I’ve tried to upgrade and it just refuses to list it on the upgrade manager. I’ve unchecked the updates to only include the intrepid-updates, changed servers to UK from South Africa, it just doesn’t like. I would try apt-get but our proxy servers and the authentication make this very difficult (I have yet to get the settings right on the command line).

I will try the CD install as you’ve listed here, but am hoping there is a way to get it to do the upgrade normally.

Thanks

By: whatdahek

whatdahek — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:28:46 +0000

How do I perform the system backup prior to installing the 9.04? New to linux sorry about the simple question.

By: Kailash

Kailash — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:00:18 +0000

Hi I am using Ubuntu 8.04 and I want upgrade to 9.04…. any ways.. I have downloaded normal Ubuntu 9.04 desktop edition.. Not the alternate cd…. I can even update through net.. can you help me out…

By: Prakash

Prakash — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:44:32 +0000

Hi there.thanks for that howto.while it is beneficial if you can add how to upgrade using command line.like apt-get upgrade..kind.
Thanks.