On 26/10/10 07:02, Peter Washington wrote: > Hi Dan, > > On 26 October 2010 01:03, Dan Jones <ldanto.jo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Finally decided to upgrade from 8.04 to 10.04 (got bored of the update >> manager nagging me :]) >> Anyway, after a day of waiting for all the packages to download, towards the >> end of the update it bombs out due to the non-free nvidia drivers. Now I'm >> scared to reboot... >> >> Any advice? > I hate to state the obvious, (please forgive me if this is TOO > obvious), but did you upgrade to 9.04 as an interim step ? > > I would have tried going straight from 8.04 LTS to 10.04 LTS myself if > Ralph hadn't pointed out to me that Ubuntu explicitly state that it > won't work.
The advice at help.ubuntu.com would appear to disagree with that statement Peter: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LucidUpgrades and specifically: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LucidUpgrades#Upgrade from 8.04 LTS to 10.04 LTS Sean -- music, film, comics, books, rants and drivel: www.funkygibbins.me.uk -- Next meeting: Crown Hotel, Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-11-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
