Thursday, October 30, 2008

Ubuntu 8.10 Upgrade from ubuntu 8.04

Ubuntu 8.10 is almost available, im guessing torrent lines should be full once the downloading starts....

I wonder when will it open? I have already opened the ubuntu site 5 times this day...

October 21...

Yey, ubuntu is now ok for download. Downloading at 120 kbps per second. It took almost an hour and a half using bitTorrent. I downloaded the alternate installer.

I burned the cd then popped it into my asus a8le, by the way im using ubuntu 8.04 with my laptop, so im not expecting a lot of trouble with my upgrade. a dialog came up asking me to either install or upgrade,i choose upgrade. Then the dialog said it now started copying the files. After about 15 minutes, another dialog came up. exim lib pamg. i just clicked forward, omg, the dialog seems to hang. it took something like 1 minute before it came back from being dimmed. After being dimmed which caused some panic inside me, it said 25 minutes remaining before being finished.
6 minutes. remaining
It is now asking if i want to replace my dhclient.conf, i want to. so i choose yes
3 minutes.
It is now asking me if i want to replace my samba.conf. I dont want to, i choose no.
Finally, its now asking if i want to delete the old packages, ill choose yes of course, but before you do, please make sure that you have a backup of your file. You never know what will happen.
The dialog now says cleaning up.
Now its asking if i want to restart on not. of course i will restart..
here goes..Its now restarting, i hope everything goes well for this upgrade.
I think this is trouble, its 3 minutes now and the computer is still blank although the power led is on. ah ok, now i see it. its not yet fully off, i press the off button and it started shutting down all the services.
I am now booting into the new system.
Yeps, it works and yes nothing's broken, even my theme is preserved. yipee.

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