Upgrade from 8.04 to 10.04 LTS (BORKED)

[Christopher Chan]

Liam Proven wrote:
> On 13 September 2010 09:53, Alan Pope <alan at popey.com> wrote:
>> 0. Find someone willing to remotely login
>> 1. Boot live cd.
>> 2. Install openssh-server in live environment
>> 3. Create a new user in live environment
>> 4. ssh -R to setup a reverse ssh tunnel to the person willing to help
>>
>> then..
>>
>> 5. Helper ssh's in over that connection and mounts up the local
>> filesystem, uses 'magic' (dpkg, vi, grub-install) to fix
>>
>> Would that not work?
> 
> Good plan. Never tried it and not sure I'd know how to rescue a
> half-installed box, myself, but it is a good plan.

Way better than having to talk someone through on the phone or er have 
the expert who recommended this pile of rubbish talk you through the 
commands needed to disable Network Manager to get PPPoE setup and get on 
the Net and realize you can't play your favourite online games that 
require a Windows client.