[Cialug] Problem upgrading ubuntu fiesty to gutsy

[Nick Fox]

You would still have to go through this same process for hardy -> 
intrepid doing it this way. I highly suggest reverting your sources.list 
back and using update-manager to process the distro upgrade.

-Nick
> I gave mounting an ISO a go too.  I mounted a hardy disk and tried 
> both the cdupgrade and to use it as a repository.  Maybe I should have 
> tried to use a feisty disk as a repository.
>  
> I want to upgrade to Hardy, assuming from there it will be a matter of 
> reboots and apt-gets to get to a current stable version.
>  
> -Nate
>
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>     *From:* cialug-bounces at cialug.org
>     [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] *On Behalf Of *jrnosee at gmail.com
>     *Sent:* Friday, March 27, 2009 2:40 PM
>     *To:* Central Iowa Linux Users Group
>     *Subject:* Re: [Cialug] Problem upgrading ubuntu fiesty to gutsy
>
>     Could he mount an iso of the upgrade disk he needs and then
>     upgrade from that?
>
>
>
>     On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Nick Fox
>     <nfox at foxmediasystems.com <mailto:nfox at foxmediasystems.com>> wrote:
>
>         Whoops, by Hardy, I mean Intrepid. ;)
>
>         -Nick
>
>             Are you trying to get to gutsy specifically or just
>             upgrade to stable release?
>
>             If you want to get to Hardy, you can do 'sudo
>             update-manager -c' and it will take care of everything.
>
>             -Nick
>
>                 I meant to add that I have used that too with the same
>                 results.
>
>                 -Nate
>                  
>
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>                     [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org
>                     <mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org>] On Behalf Of
>                     Matthew Nuzum
>                     Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 3:27 PM
>                     To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
>                     Subject: Re: [Cialug] Problem upgrading ubuntu
>                     fiesty to gutsy
>
>                     On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Nathan C. Smith
>                     <nathan.smith at ipmvs.com
>                     <mailto:nathan.smith at ipmvs.com>> wrote:
>                      
>
>                         I can run apt-get update but when I do apt-get
>                         dist-upgrade      
>
>                     it switches some of the prerequists-sources.list
>                     back to us.archive....
>                        by the way, there's a "better" way to
>                     upgrade... use do-release-upgrade
>
>                     It does the apt-get stuff for you and has special
>                     rules built in that
>                     helps it handle some of the odd cases where
>                     apt-get asks you a
>                     thousand questions or fights with dependencies.
>                     This is the command
>                     line equiv of
>
>                     update-manager --dist-upgrade
>
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