8.04 to 8.10 solved

[Willis Taylor]

> 
> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:05:28 -0500
> From: Andrew Farris <flyindragon1 at aol.com>
> Subject: Re: 8.04 to 8.10
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support,	not for general discussions"
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> On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 21:05 -0500, 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;
> 
> when you say you 'stopped the upgrade', was the upgrade-manager still
> downloading packages, or was it actually installing things? 
> 
> Also, have you tried running 
>     update-manager -d
> to see if the option comes back up to upgrade to 8.10? Note: if it
> suggests upgrading to 9.04, rather than 8.10, DO NOT DO IT. Your system
> is already in a fuzzy state because of the stopped upgrade, so that
> could only make things worse. 
> 
> However, if it simply tells you that 8.10 is available again, then try
> upgrading to that with the upgrade tool through update-manager
> (presumably it will be re-downloaded, or it will start from where it
> left off).
> 
> hope that helps!
> 
> 
> -- 
> Andrew

I was in the process of downloading, just had begun.  I did gksu
gedit /etc/apt/sources.list and found two references to Intrepid.  I
deleted the two lines and I am in the process of updating, on the net,
right now.