I am trying to find a version of Ubuntu 8.10 that was configured specifically for UMPCs (as described here, but it appears to have completely disappeared off the internet; it's no longer on cdimage.ubuntu.com and the only torrent I can find has zero seeders. It boggles the mind that an operating system can just vanish into thin air. Anyone know where I can find this?
I am using Ubuntu 8.10 and want to upgrade it to 12.04.
I have downloaded 12.04 from the Ubuntu site and burned as ISO image CD in a DVD (because it is 701.3MB).
When I insert this DVD into my drive for installation, it does not boot. A blank black screen appears.
In 8.10 when I click on update to 9.04 it shows some error. Ubuntu 8.10 is not as good as 12.04. Please friends help me to solve this problem. I want to install Ubuntu 12.04 in my pc.
I am trying to copy some files from a disused Ubuntu 8.10 system.
To do that I need to install nfs, portmap, etc., since those are not already installed.
So I open Synaptic to install the packages. It figures the dependencies and lists the needed packages. I click 'Apply' and get a warning that the sources cannot be authenticated. I click 'Apply' anyway and get an error message like:
W: Failed to fetch http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/main/pool/p/portmap/portmap_6.0-6ubuntu1_i386.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.167 80]
Where is there a repository for the most recent 8.10 packages?
Thanks for your detailed answer.
I used vi instead of sed, and just replaced each occurrence of 'us.archive' with 'old-releases' using: :g/us.archive/s//old-releases/g
I believe that that is equivalent although my sed skills are a little rusty.
First I simply replaced the 'archives' without getting rid of 'us.' and got the same 404 errors as before, so that part is important.
It seems to be working so far!
I did get some errors like:
Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/intrepid-security/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 91.189.92.166 80]
when I clicked 'Reload' in Synaptic. Should I do something about that?
In my office I've Ubuntu 8.10 desktop installed and it's running for a long time. When ever the system is started, I'll get a file system maintenance error
and something it's prompted for the root password or (press ctrl+d to continue)
. After pressing Ctrl+D the system normally boots up. I could not resolve this issue for a long time and I think something should be done in the fstab
file. I'm not sure to do anything and expecting the experts here to help to perfectly fix this. Any help is appreciated.
Thanks!
I'm trying to check the boot log messages in the file /var/log/boot
on Ubuntu 8.10 & 9.10 and I found it empty with the message (Nothing has been logged yet.)
. The bootlogd
service is running at the startup.
I changed the file vim /etc/default/bootlogd
# Run bootlogd at startup ?
BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=No
Change No to Yes:
# Run bootlogd at startup ?
BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=Yes