Move to 8.04, Hardy Heron

[Michael.Coll-Barth at VerizonWireless.com]

Hi all!

Who picks those names?  When we get to 'N', how about Needy Nerd?  :)  

This weekend, I actually went so far as to click on the Upgrade button
for 8.04.  Then I saw how long the download would take, multiplied that
by 5 ( the number of Ubuntu systems I have ) and said 'nyet'.  I found
an old email in this forum that talked about doing upgrades using the
alternative CD.  So, I went and downloaded it and tried the following
suggestion.

	If the upgrade dialog is not displayed for any reason, you may
also run the following command using Alt+F2:

	gksu "sh /cdrom/cdromupgrade"

Alt+F2 did nothing for me.  Where would I type this command?

I already backed up /home ( ain't rsync grand? ) and that fresh install
is looking quite sweet.  However, how do I resurrect the Users?   I
would like to be able to restore all of the Users with their passwords,
groups, etc.  

Is there a way to rebuild the menus, short of manually creating the
them?

Finally, a manual update of the grub.conf entries with the new vmlinuz
and initrd names would be needed.  Correct?

Thanks!
Michael

















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