[Cialug] RE: Problem upgrading ubuntu fiesty to gutsy

[Nathan C. Smith]

Bad form, replying to self.  I realize Feisty is spelled wrong... Now.  Sorry. 

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> [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Nathan C. Smith
> Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 3:14 PM
> To: 'Central Iowa Linux Users Group'
> Subject: [Cialug] Problem upgrading ubuntu fiesty to gutsy
> 
> 
> 
> I have been trying to upgrade ubuntu feisty to Ubuntu gutsy.  
> I have replaced all my apt-sources with 
> old-releases.ubuntu.com because us.archive.ubuntu.com no 
> longer seems to have what my machine wants for the update.  
> 
> I have edited /etc/apt/sources.list and 
> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/prerequists-sources.list to change 
> all the repositories to old-releases....
> 
> I can run apt-get update but when I do apt-get dist-upgrade 
> it switches some of the prerequists-sources.list back to 
> us.archive....
> 
> Can anyone tell me why it is doing that, and is there any way 
> to brute force the upgrade?  (in the old days we could 
> sometimes just change all the names from feisty to gutsy and 
> apt-get until done.)
> 
> I have limited physical access to the machine, otherwise I 
> might have used a CD-ROM by now.
> 
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