Hardy lost my DVD drive at installation from Dapper.

Did you upgrade using the alternate ISO?

Can you also please provide the output of:

sudo lshw -C disk

Thanks for replying. I used the alternate ISO because the desktop always gave me a "busy box", intramfs error.

I don't know that sudo command, but I will try it. Apparently I have a Samsung hanging around in my files.

Now I was playing around with the boot and got into one of the options, sorry I don't remember which, and ubuntu demanded that I put in the 9.04 Alternate iso disk which I had used to update some 8.04 programs. Then it proceeded to install 9.04. So I went directly from 8.04 to 9.04.

9.04 also lost my DVD player, as well as my floppy, but I was able to retrieve the floppy.

sudo gives users in the admin group full access to the system rather than the limited access they usually have.

Did you MD5 check the ISO file you downloaded?

Hi on a command-line can you try

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

I'm not sure but i think you are only partially upgraded at the moment. Hopefully that command might complete the process but i'm a bit new to this. Jumping straight from 8.04 to 9.04 is normal and usually fine because 8.04 is a special LTS release.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

I have completed upgraded 9.04 and still no DVD. My lshw is

 *-disk
       description: ATA Disk
       product: Maxtor 92041U4
       vendor: Maxtor
       physical id: 0.0.0
       bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0
       logical name: /dev/sda
       version: FA52
       serial: G415RBPC
       size: 19GiB (20GB)
       capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
       configuration: ansiversion=5 signature=00090276
  *-cdrom
       description: CD-R/CD-RW writer
       product: R/RW 4x4x32
       vendor: IDE-CD
       physical id: 0.1.0
       bus info: scsi@1:0.1.0
       logical name: /dev/cdrom
       logical name: /dev/cdrw
       logical name: /dev/scd0
       logical name: /dev/sr0
       version: 1.3B

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Tom <email address hidden>wrote:

> Your question #81027 on Ubuntu changed:
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>
> Tom proposed the following answer:
> Hi on a command-line can you try
>
> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> I'm not sure but i think you are only partially upgraded at the moment.
> Hopefully that command might complete the process but i'm a bit new to
> this. Jumping straight from 8.04 to 9.04 is normal and usually fine
> because 8.04 is a special LTS release.
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo
>
> Good luck and regards from
> Tom :)
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Thanks for the lshw. Hopefully that will help ActionParsnip :)
Here's a guide for checking the md5sum
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM

Good luck with that, regards from
Tom :)

I got nothing. I'd have a read of:

dmesg | less

I now have Ubuntu 9.04, kernal 2.6.28.15-generic, which I guess is pretty recent. Thanks to Tom for the "dist-upgrade" idea. I checked my fstab to see how the CD was installed, but didn't get any good clues, except that "udf" seems to have something to do with it.

Jusf for more information, my fstab is:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda1
UUID=83126740-fb7c-47b4-a521-52fb4ca7b875 / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda5
UUID=4bf742c9-9311-4a23-ac13-12cf3eabc391 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
/dev/fd1 /media/floppy1 auto rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0

I have tried looking this up udf,iso9660 stuff but without success. I have also installed libdvdnav4 and libdvidread4. Strange thing is that if I put an install cd in my dvd, it starts up and wants to install. That's all for now.

Hi :)

It might be a good idea to re-post this question to try to get more people able to see it
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+addquestion
and also try asking the question in
http://www.linuxquestions.org
You can always paste a link back to this thread so you can keep your question quite short and let people visit here if they want the information you have given
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/81027

Also maybe this link might help
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Signpost/Questions#help

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

Despite the welcome suggestions, nothing has changed. Still no dvd.

Hi :)

It might be a good idea to re-post this question to try to get more people able to see it
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+addquestion
and also try asking the question in
http://www.linuxquestions.org
You can always paste a link back to this thread so you can keep your question quite short and let people visit here if they want the information you have in this thread here
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/81027

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

Hi :)

Have you been able to try the new Ubuntu 10.04 before it gets officially released?
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/testing/lucid/beta2
Trying it as a LiveCd or as an extra dual/multi-boot would be ideal. Developers and everyone are keen to try to iron out any problems before 10.04 gets officially released so you might find faster & more effective answers to your bug reports which would make 10.04 work better on your system for you

Thanks and regards from
Tom :)