8.04 to 8.10

[Karl F. Larsen]

Willis Taylor wrote:
> I am running Hardy, 8.04, i386 my AMD dual core and went to upgrade it
> to 8.10.  abut ten minutes int the upgrade I lost power and being on
> battery I stopped the upgrade and shut it down.  Now I have 527 upgrades
> available but cannot have them, I receive the following;
> 
> Could not calculate the upgrade
> 
> A unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade.
> 
>  This can be caused by:
>  * Upgrading to a pre-release version of Ubuntu
>  * Running the current pre-release version of Ubuntu
>  * Unofficial software packages not provided by Ubuntu
> 
> This is most likely a transient problem, please try again later.
> 
> Is there any easy way out of this mess?
> 
> 

	Not really. The easiest is to tell the 8.10 to format the 
partition and then you will not be upgrading. I doubt that you 
can start your 8.04 again.

	To save your stuff you might come up in a LiveCD and try to 
save the /home/????/ directory in another partition.

73 Karl


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