Trying to upgrade from 7.10 feisty fawn to 8.04 hardy heron. need help

Asked by adeignsss

this is what im getting when i try to update.

Please insert the disk labeled:
Ubuntu 8.04 _Hardy Heron_ - Release i386 (20080423)
in drive /cdrom/

I insert the disk
I click on ok then this pops up again and again.
Also i get this message after I push cancel.

W: Failed to fetch cdrom:[Ubuntu 8.04 _Hardy Heron_ - Release i386 (20080423)]/pool/main/t/timedate/libtimedate-perl_1.1600-9_all.deb

Why isn't detecting my cd rom?

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Tony Mugan (tmugan) said :
#1

If you have the bandwidth to download from the internet, ignore the CD.

Go to System menu, Administration and Software Sources.

Untick the CD and tick the Multiverse and Universe (and Restricted if it does not disagree with your principles).

The close and it will reload the list of packages from these repositories.

Now open Update Manager under the same Administration menu and run a check and update until it reports that you have all updates.

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adeignsss (adreignsss-hotmail) said :
#2

I did what u said and it says the info is out of date

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Tony Mugan (tmugan) said :
#3

Ok, go to the Applications menu, Accessories, choose Terminal and type

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

and repeat these until all it tells you there are no further updates

Then try

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Let us know the outcome of those

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adeignsss (adreignsss-hotmail) said :
#4

adreignss@adreignss-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  dpkg-dev g++ libc6-dev
The following packages will be upgraded:
  evolution evolution-common evolution-plugins linux-libc-dev tzdata
5 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/15.0MB of archives.
After unpacking 242kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Abort.

This is what i get when using sudo apt-get upgrade

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Old_Soldier (charles.davis) said :
#5

    sudo aptitude install update-manager-core

    sudo do-release-upgrade

should sort you out

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adeignsss (adreignsss-hotmail) said :
#6

[ 0%] 5558B/s 1d 13h47m36s Media change: please insert the disc labeled 'Ubuntu 8.04 _Hardy Heron_ - Release i386 (20080423)' in the drive '/cdrom/' and press enter

 0% [Working] Media change: please insert the disc labeled 'Ubuntu 8.04 _Hardy Heron_ - Release i386 (20080423)' in the drive '/cdrom/' and press enter

[ 0%] 158kB/s 1h19m28s Media change: please insert the disc labeled 'Ubuntu 8.04 _Hardy Heron_ - Release i386 (20080423)' in the drive '/cdrom/' and press enter

After doing sudo do-release-upgrade

this is what im getting i keep pressing enter its like its a dead end.

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Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said :
#7

Hello

paste the output of

cat /etc/apt/sources.list

here please

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adeignsss (adreignsss-hotmail) said :
#8

adreignss@adreignss-desktop:~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
# See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade to
# newer versions of the distribution.

deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 8.04 _Hardy Heron_ - Release i386 (20080423)]/ hardy main restricted
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates main restricted

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.

## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
## security team.

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
# deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty-backports main restricted universe multiverse
# deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty-backports main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security main restricted
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates restricted main
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-backports restricted main

adreignss@adreignss-desktop:~$

this is what i got when i did the above

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Tony Mugan (tmugan) said :
#9

Aha!
When you said above "I did what u said and it says the info is out of date". Did you click ok to reload the software sources?
What I'm about to ask you to edit could also be done using the "Software Sources" menu option I mentioned above.

Open up a terminal window and edit your sources file using

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

You need to make the following alterations by adding a # before the line to comment it out.

#deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 8.04 _Hardy Heron_ - Release i386 (20080423)]/ hardy main restricted

Also, because hardy-updates is mentioned in two places, comment one of them out like this.

#deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates main restricted

I would also recommend adding "universe multiverse" to the end of some of the lines so that you have future access to more repositories of software

deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-updates restricted main universe multiverse
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ hardy-backports restricted main universe multiverse

That should work.

On a related topic, if you'd like to also get better performance, i.e. faster download of Ubuntu updates and software, you need to go to "Software Sources" menu option mentioned above and choose to "Download from" and select "Other" and then click on "Best Server". That will edit the sources.list file for you automatically and choose the mirror server that is closest to you.

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dave (dhigginb1) said :
#10

I had a similar problem, but am okay now. Here's what I did (`this may or may not work for you):
a) I abandoned the upgrade, backed up my files to a portable drive, and installed from scratch using the 8.04-1 disk that recently came out
b) I opened up my case and moved my CDROM drive from slave to master (moving the HD on that IDE cable to slave instead of master.
c) I also made sure that the CDROM drive - now the Master instead of the Slave - was at the end of the IDE cable.

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