Ubuntu 8.04 to 10.04 upgrade: I'm in the final 20 minutes

By Steven Rosenberg on August 22, 2010 10:35 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) |

I decided to go ahead with the in-place upgrade of the Gateway Solo 1450 laptop from Ubuntu 8.04 to 10.04 LTS.

After some initial bumps along the road, everything today has gone extremely smoothly. I've already addressed the fact that the 10.04 upgrade is only presented to 8.04 users when update-manager is run with the --devel-release switch. It's hacky, in no way self-evident, but once you find the information is easy enough to act upon.

Thus far the process has been long but uneventful. I know in a few short minutes whether or not this Celeron-based laptop will boot into 10.04 with or without incident.

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Steven Rosenberg's weekly Tech Talk column, which appeared Saturdays in the Los Angeles Daily News through about October 2009, is available on the Daily News Technology page.