I am trying to upgrade my oldest machine, an IBM thinkpad with a 1999 bios from kubuntu 7.04 to 8.10. I downloaded the install cd and set the boot on the IBM to boot from cd but the install cd does not start up. I checked the read me on the install cd and see that I need a sbm floppy however I do not have a floppy drive. Is there a way to upgrade the bios or a command line solution to start the install?
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Re: installing on old machine, outdated bios
I've got an IBM ThinkPad A30 from the same era. I also had the same problems upgrading from 8.04 to 8.10. The way I got around it was like this:
1- open a terminal or press Alt-F2 to get the 'Run Command' dialog box
2- paste the following code and press enter:
Code:adept_manager --dist-upgrade-devel
3-click on the "Version Upgrade" and the upgrade will start.
Do not forget to BACK UP everything you want to keep before you start. Although you will probably not have a major problem, there is always a small chance that your stuff will get borked, especially if you do not have your /home on a separate partition.
Let us know if this works from 7.04 to 8.10 so you can help the next person with this problem.
This is where I found out how to do it: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading"The second most satisfying thing in life is to totally understand a complicated <br />concept. If you are very lucky you may attain *the* most satisfying thing in <br />life and actually grok it."
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Re: installing on old machine, outdated bios
Are you sure the installation CD is a good one? Did you burn it "as ISO" and at 4X speed? Does it boot on other computers?
I've never heard of anyone ever needing a floppy diskette to boot Kubuntu -- there's something wrong with your CD, I think.
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Re: installing on old machine, outdated bios
I also have 1999 bios. I directly installed kubuntu 8.10 from CD and it worked fine. I didn't need a sbm floppy. So me too think the CD is the case.--------<br />Kasun Gajasinghe,<br />University of Moratuwa,<br />Sri Lanka.<br /><br />Blog: http://kasunbg.blogspot.com<br />Twitter: http://twitter.com/kasunbg
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