Gutsy Gibbon to Hardy Heron

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Finally, after 4 days of hard work, I managed to get Ubuntu 8.04: Hardy Heron running on my laptop. I’m very happy with that even though I had to spent a lot of time on fixing the problems. Now, everything is working perfectly in my Ubuntu system except Hardware Information. The Hardware Information keep crashing when I try to open it. In this post, I want to share my experience upgrading to Hardy Heron.

 

Upgrading Ubuntu 7.10 to Ubuntu 8.04

 

On Saturday, I upgraded my Ubuntu 7.10 to Ubuntu 8.04 using the update manager. I clicked on upgrade and followed the instruction. A dialog box pop-up showing the upgrading process. After a while, the process stop and I got a dialog box saying that there was a problem with internet connection. It might be caused by too much load put on the server. For those with slow internet connection, I recommend you to download a live Cd.

 

Because of that problem, I decided to download a live CD. I torrent a Dvd image of 3.7 GB in just 2 hours. It was super amazing fast; the download speed went up to 600 KB/s. I burned the iso file and loaded it up. I wait for about an hour and the upgrading process finish. The process was really smooth, no problem occurred during the installation process.

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