Can't upgrade from Hardy 8.04 to Ibex 8.10

[pwabrahams]

Perhaps I'm missing something obvious, but I can't upgrade from Hardy 8.04 to Ibex 8.10. I've downloaded the Kubuntu Ibex CD. There are two upgrade paths I'm aware of: using adept with the "Full Upgrade" option, or booting from the new CD. Adept has greyed out the Full Upgrade option, so that doesn't work for me. And when I boot from the CD, I never see an "upgrade" choice. I eventually quit the new system since I didn't want to overwrite Hardy, just upgrade it.

What am I missing?

[Snowhog]

Re: Can't upgrade from Hardy 8.04 to Ibex 8.10

You can't upgrade using the LiveCD. To upgrade Hardy to Intrepid, follow these instructions.

[pwabrahams]

Alternate CD for 8.10?

The instructions describe how to upgrade from Gutsy to Hardy, but not from Hardy to Intrepid. And they depend on having an alternate CD for Intrepid -- which I have not found.

Is it possible that the upgrade isn't supported yet even though the clean install is?

[Snowhog]

Re: Can't upgrade from Hardy 8.04 to Ibex 8.10

My bad. :P

Kubuntu 8.04 to 8.10 Upgrade

[Detonate]

Re: Can't upgrade from Hardy 8.04 to Ibex 8.10

The "Alternate CD" method worked fine for me. I had a problem with the dist-upgrade method, it kept telling me it was unable to authenticate to the server. When you use the alternate cd method, the first screen that comes up asks if you want to use files from the internet. I clicked yes and everything went smoothly.

[Iskan Der]

Re: Can't upgrade from Hardy 8.04 to Ibex 8.10

Can anyone help me with upgrade too, please?
I've tried upgrading two times already, each time with new problems.
First time I tried Internet upgrade. It had finished fine but then I was unable to login. On logon screen the only session types available were "Default" and "Failsafe" (none of which could start KDE).
Aftert that I restored 8.04 from backup and tried upgrading from alternate CD. This time I'm unable to boot at all: comp reboots right after GRUB starts working and before its menu is shown.
I tried reinstalling GRUB from LiveDVD using the following:

sudo mount /dev/sda3 /mnt
sudo grub-install --root-directory=/mnt /dev/sda3

BTW, I use ntldr (WinXP is on /dev/sda1) as a primary boot loader. I've already tried creating GRUB's image with dd (this method used to work always) and with bootpart.exe, nothing helps.