[svlug] interrupted ubuntu update

[Paul Cubbage]

Doesn't apt-get update work from the command line?

On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Larry Colen <lrc at red4est.com> wrote:

> My desktop machine is multiboot.
>
> The other day I was updating ubuntu, did some other things, and in the
> process I thought ubuntu had finished the update. I started to reboot
> back to fedora, I got a warning that the update wasn't finished,
> pressed "cancel the reboot", and the machine rebooted.
>
> Now, it will boot into ubuntu, but just into text, no X. I had been
> doing the update with update manager, but that won't work without X.
>
> Is there a simple way of telling it to continue the update from where
> it left off?
>
> Failing that, it turns out that the update was only to 7.04 rather
> than 7.10, is there someway that I can use my DVD to upgrade directly
> to 7.10 without it wiping out my other OS partitions? Every time
> I've tried to install ubuntu, it has played nicely with windows, but
> wants to stomp all over my other linux partitions. Now that I've got a
> bunch of stuff on this machine, I don't want to lose everything.
>
> --
>         "I just can't fathom how far light would travel in 6nSec"
> Larry Colen             lrc at red4est.com
> http://www.red4est.com/lrc
>
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