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Upgrade Ubuntu 8.04.1 to Ubuntu 10.4LTS listing/printout of configuration settings

Currently in place - Ubuntu 8.04.1, as a File Server (Samba)/Web/Mail/Users
Looking to upgrade to Ubuntu 10.4LTS
I have no Ubuntu experience, less installing it on a desktop.  
I have good knowledge of Microsoft
How do I go about geting the the configuration settings for File Server (Samba)/Web/Mail/Users in case something goes wrong and I need to build from scratch?
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Have a good/current backup.

You may need to add the repositories. or go through the upgrade process to 9 and then to 10.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1507505
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu/upgrade

Presumably you went through the upgrade software option that is available in the GUI
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It doesn't appear the the GUI is active.  Is there a way to turn that on?
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startx
user/bin/startx: line 139: xauth: command not found
user/bin/startx: line 149: xauth: command not found
user/bin/startx: line 151: xauth: command not found
user/bin/startx: line 149: xauth: command not found
user/bin/startx: line 151: xauth: command not found
: cannot stat /etc/x11/x (no such file or directory), aborting.
init: Server error
user/bin/startx: line 166: xauth: command not found

I then follow these procedures:
 1.Install update-manager-core if it is not already installed:    sudo apt-get install update-manager-core
 2.edit /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades and set Prompt=normal  
 3.Launch the upgrade tool:  sudo do-release-upgrade
I then get:
Failed Upgrade tool signature
Failed Upgrade tool
Done downloading
extracting 'intrepid.tar.gz'
failed to extract
extracting the upgrade failed. There may be a problem with the network or with the server


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I did this:
sudo apt-get install xorg

Now when I run STARTX, I get a mouse cursor on a grey screen with a small box in the upper left corner.  I type "exit" and come back to the command line.

It tells me:
AIGLS error:  dlopen of /user/lib/dri/unichrome_dri.so failed.  (.... no such file or directory)

lspci -v gives me:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/P4M800 Pro/P4M800 CE/VN800 [S3 UniChrome Pro]
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Thanks wesly.
How much overhead does this have. Does it tax the server much?
Not much, unless you do a lot of GUI stuff like watching video or image processing.
The GUI taxing only occurs if you continue to run the GUI mechanism, using telinit 2 will set the ubuntu to boot up in a multi-user non graphical mode.
With this all you would need to get the GUI, it to run startx.