Comments on: Network Upgrade for Ubuntu Server (8.04 -> 8.10)

By: AJenbo

AJenbo — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:19:45 +0000

Thanks Aikiko for the comment

By: Arfy

Arfy — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:41:16 +0000

To the author, thanks for having this information available.

Jimmy and Aikiko: Thank you for your comments! Now it works properly!

(I don’t know why but the 8.10 iso for ubuntu-server-i386 just won’t install properly on my Dell Optiplex GX240. Something about passwd depends and libc6. I even verified the written CD had the right md5sum.)

Thanks.

By: Aikiko

Aikiko — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:21:21 +0000

you missed one point :

Edit /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades and set:

Prompt=normal

By: Jimmy Montano

Jimmy Montano — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:31:00 +0000

Thanks for your tutorial.

Please note that your aptitude command is missing a dash. Should be:

sudo aptitude install update-manager-core

By: Chris Irwin

Chris Irwin — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:19:53 +0000

It may be a good idea to suggest the use of ‘screen’ when doing major updates over ssh. It would (hopefully) avoid leaving a system in a partially-upgraded state in the case of network outages (whether due to software or other.