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distro update issues...11.04-11.10

Asked by Lorenzo Woodley

For some reason my computer goes into a update panic half way through checking its update im trying to update my distro to 11.10

the error says
Failed to download repository information

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>details
W:Failed to fetch cdrom://Ubuntu 10.10 _Maverick Meerkat_ - Release i386 (20101007)/dists/maverick/main/binary-i386/Packages Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs
, W:Failed to fetch cdrom://Ubuntu 10.10 _Maverick Meerkat_ - Release i386 (20101007)/dists/maverick/restricted/binary-i386/Packages Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs
, E:Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

Please help im confused as to why this did not work also...unrelated note expose.plug-in and compiz cube do not work i activeded them separately and neither keyboard commands work

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This question was originally filed as bug #840781.

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Lorenzo Woodley (zath13) said : 		#1

For some reason my computer goes into a update panic half way through checking its update im trying to update my distro to 11.10

the error says
Failed to download repository information

Check your Internet connection.
>details
 W:Failed to fetch cdrom://Ubuntu 10.10 _Maverick Meerkat_ - Release i386 (20101007)/dists/maverick/main/binary-i386/Packages Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs
, W:Failed to fetch cdrom://Ubuntu 10.10 _Maverick Meerkat_ - Release i386 (20101007)/dists/maverick/restricted/binary-i386/Packages Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs
, E:Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

Please help im confused as to why this did not work also...unrelated note expose.plug-in and compiz cube do not work i activeded them separately and neither keyboard commands work

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Jacobsallan (jacobsallan) said : 		#2

You are attempting to upgrade from 11.04 to 10.10. You wanted to upgrade from 11.04 to 11.10. Search for a different link.

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