Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade from 6.06LTS!

2012-11-28 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2012-11-27 18:39, Liam Proven wrote: > I think what would put me off KVM slightly is that it means installing > a Linux system, installing KVM on it, configuring the whole thing, > updating it, locking it down... and then building a VM on top of that. > > ESXi is 32MB of code. Install it, conne

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade from 6.06LTS!

2012-11-27 Thread LeeGroups
Paul, In a superb case of timing I did exactly this last week... I have a very old box that backs up the contents of my home server every week. It all started as I wanted NFS4 on the backup server (see my other thread), and as Dapper has gone e

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade from 6.06LTS!

2012-11-27 Thread Liam Proven
On 27 November 2012 16:30, Alan Bell wrote: > On 27/11/12 15:49, Liam Proven wrote: >> >> FWIW, I think it is foolish and even suicidal of VMware to depend upon >> Windows for management, but what can you do... > > you can use KVM, it works great on the server side and there is a nice GUI > client

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade from 6.06LTS!

2012-11-27 Thread Alan Bell
On 27/11/12 15:49, Liam Proven wrote: FWIW, I think it is foolish and even suicidal of VMware to depend upon Windows for management, but what can you do... you can use KVM, it works great on the server side and there is a nice GUI client for the Linux desktop that allows you to see what your VM

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade from 6.06LTS!

2012-11-27 Thread Liam Proven
On 27 November 2012 14:42, Paul Tansom wrote: > ** Liam Proven [2012-11-27 14:49]: >> On 27 November 2012 14:13, Paul Tansom wrote: >> > I have a server (i.e. no desktop software, X, or etc. - not that this >> > necessarily follows, but it does with me!)... >> > >> > ...anyway, this server is c

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade from 6.06LTS!

2012-11-27 Thread Paul Tansom
** Liam Proven [2012-11-27 14:49]: > On 27 November 2012 14:13, Paul Tansom wrote: > > I have a server (i.e. no desktop software, X, or etc. - not that this > > necessarily follows, but it does with me!)... > > > > ...anyway, this server is currently running Ubuntu 6.06LTS and I need to > > upg

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade from 6.06LTS!

2012-11-27 Thread Liam Proven
On 27 November 2012 14:13, Paul Tansom wrote: > I have a server (i.e. no desktop software, X, or etc. - not that this > necessarily follows, but it does with me!)... > > ...anyway, this server is currently running Ubuntu 6.06LTS and I need to > upgrade to 12.04LTS. Clearly I have two options, ei

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade from 6.06LTS!

2012-11-27 Thread Bruno Girin
On 27/11/12 14:13, Paul Tansom wrote: > I have a server (i.e. no desktop software, X, or etc. - not that this > necessarily follows, but it does with me!)... > > ...anyway, this server is currently running Ubuntu 6.06LTS and I need to > upgrade to 12.04LTS. Clearly I have two options, either upgr

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade from 6.06LTS!

2012-11-27 Thread A
I'd recommend a fresh install really. Customise the iso a bit. There's also a dpkg command to save a list of everything you've got installed now and then you can work backwards from this text file and install only what you had (plus or minus package changes through versions). This saves time stripp

[ubuntu-uk] Upgrade from 6.06LTS!

2012-11-27 Thread Paul Tansom
I have a server (i.e. no desktop software, X, or etc. - not that this necessarily follows, but it does with me!)... ...anyway, this server is currently running Ubuntu 6.06LTS and I need to upgrade to 12.04LTS. Clearly I have two options, either upgrade or reinstall. Reinstall seems safer, bar t

Re: [ubuntu-uk] upgrade to 11.10

2011-11-08 Thread Colin Law
On 8 November 2011 10:16, Norman Silverstone wrote: > I am using 11.04 with, what I assume to be, the original Gnome desktop. > My computer is not particularly sophisticated being about 5 years old > and I would like to know whether I am likely to encounter a whole lot of > new problems to solve s

Re: [ubuntu-uk] upgrade to 11.10

2011-11-08 Thread Norman Silverstone
> > Yes - try 11.10 from the live-CD. If you like it, install it. If you > prefer the Gnome desktop, consider using XUbuntu. On an older box, it > might suit you better. Again, run it from the live-CD until you are > sure it's what you want. If the live-CD does everything you want, Ok.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] upgrade to 11.10

2011-11-08 Thread Barry Drake
On 08/11/11 10:16, Norman Silverstone wrote: I am using 11.04 with, what I assume to be, the original Gnome desktop. My computer is not particularly sophisticated being about 5 years old and I would like to know whether I am likely to encounter a whole lot of new problems to solve should I decide

Re: [ubuntu-uk] upgrade to 11.10

2011-11-08 Thread bodsda
: ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com To: Ubuntu-Uk ReplyTo: Ubuntu-Uk Subject: [ubuntu-uk] upgrade to 11.10 Sent: 8 Nov 2011 10:16 I am using 11.04 with, what I assume to be, the original Gnome desktop. My computer is not particularly sophisticated being about 5 years old and I would like to know

[ubuntu-uk] upgrade to 11.10

2011-11-08 Thread Norman Silverstone
I am using 11.04 with, what I assume to be, the original Gnome desktop. My computer is not particularly sophisticated being about 5 years old and I would like to know whether I am likely to encounter a whole lot of new problems to solve should I decide to upgrade. I have tried to follow comments ma

Re: [ubuntu-uk] upgrade from 9.10 to 11.04

2011-07-03 Thread Liam Proven
On 3 July 2011 15:06, Norman Silverstone wrote: > >>         I presume you mean well but I do not really understand what or >>         why you >>         are asking and I am not really sure if I care. >> >> Calm down, everybody... it really is not worth it. >> > I agree, I am just a cantankerous o

Re: [ubuntu-uk] upgrade from 9.10 to 11.04

2011-07-03 Thread Norman Silverstone
> I presume you mean well but I do not really understand what or > why you > are asking and I am not really sure if I care. > > Calm down, everybody... it really is not worth it. > I agree, I am just a cantankerous old man of 83 years who has been using Ubuntu since the f

Re: [ubuntu-uk] upgrade from 9.10 to 11.04

2011-07-03 Thread Liam Proven
On 3 July 2011 12:32, Norman Silverstone wrote: > < snip > > >> But you have been specifically answered & told how to install >> Unity-2D! What do you want, someone to come and do it for you? > > Now, now, don't get your knickers in a twist. >> >> More generally: what spec of computer do you have?

Re: [ubuntu-uk] upgrade from 9.10 to 11.04

2011-07-03 Thread Sean Miller
On 3 July 2011 12:32, Norman Silverstone wrote: > I presume you mean well but I do not really understand what or why you > are asking and I am not really sure if I care. > Calm down, everybody... it really is not worth it. Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/lis

Re: [ubuntu-uk] upgrade from 9.10 to 11.04

2011-07-03 Thread Norman Silverstone
< snip > > But you have been specifically answered & told how to install > Unity-2D! What do you want, someone to come and do it for you? Now, now, don't get your knickers in a twist. > > More generally: what spec of computer do you have? What is the make, > model & memory capacity of its graphi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] upgrade from 9.10 to 11.04

2011-07-02 Thread Liam Proven
On 28 June 2011 13:16, Norman Silverstone wrote: > My thanks to those who replied to my original questions. I shall just > assume that my hardware is not suitable and be satisfied with GNOME. But you have been specifically answered & told how to install Unity-2D! What do you want, someone to come

Re: [ubuntu-uk] upgrade from 9.10 to 11.04

2011-06-28 Thread Norman Silverstone
My thanks to those who replied to my original questions. I shall just assume that my hardware is not suitable and be satisfied with GNOME. Norman -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] upgrade from 9.10 to 11.04

2011-06-28 Thread Barry Drake
On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 18:13 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: > On 11.04 simply:- > sudo apt-get install unity-2d And you'll get it. Ah! Sorry, I thought you meant that 11.04 included it on the cd iso. Thanks. 11.10 does include it, and video cards that won't work with 3d work by default with 2d on boot

Re: [ubuntu-uk] upgrade from 9.10 to 11.04

2011-06-27 Thread Alan Pope
On 27 June 2011 18:06, Barry Drake wrote: > Hadn't realised that.  I'm running 11.04, and the login screen only > offers me Ubuntu or Ubuntu Classic.  11.10 offers me Unity, Unity 2d and > Gnome (though on the current testing download Gnome is not implemented. > On 11.04 simply:- sudo apt-get in

Re: [ubuntu-uk] upgrade from 9.10 to 11.04

2011-06-27 Thread Barry Drake
On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 17:05 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: > Unity 2D is available in 11.04 too. Hadn't realised that. I'm running 11.04, and the login screen only offers me Ubuntu or Ubuntu Classic. 11.10 offers me Unity, Unity 2d and Gnome (though on the current testing download Gnome is not implemen

Re: [ubuntu-uk] upgrade from 9.10 to 11.04

2011-06-27 Thread scoundrel50a
On 27/06/11 17:04, Barry Drake wrote: On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 15:07 +0100, Norman Silverstone wrote: I have just completed the three stage upgrade process and now have Ubuntu 11.04 in all its glory except that it appears that my desktop will not run the latest layout and I am stuck with GNOME. Fur

Re: [ubuntu-uk] upgrade from 9.10 to 11.04

2011-06-27 Thread Alan Pope
On 27 June 2011 17:04, Barry Drake wrote: > You might be interested to know that the testing version of Oneiric > (11.10) now implements the 2d version of the Unity desktop, and will run > on computers that cannot support Unity on 11.04.  It is not finished, > and may be a bit buggy, but it seems

Re: [ubuntu-uk] upgrade from 9.10 to 11.04

2011-06-27 Thread Barry Drake
On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 15:07 +0100, Norman Silverstone wrote: > I have just completed the three stage upgrade process and now have > Ubuntu 11.04 in all its glory except that it appears that my desktop > will not run the latest layout and I am stuck with GNOME. Furthermore, > the icon for adjusting

Re: [ubuntu-uk] upgrade from 9.10 to 11.04

2011-06-27 Thread John Stevenson
On 27 June 2011 15:07, Norman Silverstone wrote: > I have just completed the three stage upgrade process and now have > Ubuntu 11.04 in all its glory except that it appears that my desktop > will not run the latest layout and I am stuck with GNOME. Furthermore, > the icon for adjusting the volume

Re: [ubuntu-uk] upgrade from 9.10 to 11.04

2011-06-27 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 27 June 2011 15:07, Norman Silverstone wrote: > I have just completed the three stage upgrade process and now have > Ubuntu 11.04 in all its glory except that it appears that my desktop > will not run the latest layout and I am stuck with GNOME. Furthermore, > the icon for adjusting the volume

[ubuntu-uk] upgrade from 9.10 to 11.04

2011-06-27 Thread Norman Silverstone
I have just completed the three stage upgrade process and now have Ubuntu 11.04 in all its glory except that it appears that my desktop will not run the latest layout and I am stuck with GNOME. Furthermore, the icon for adjusting the volume of the sound is no longer there on the top panel. I would

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade woes

2010-10-18 Thread Glen Mehn
Hi Barry, You're not by any fortunate chance in London, are you? Can you give us an idea of your filesystem layout? i.e.: /dev/sda1 is /boot /dev/sda2 is /home /dev/sda3 is / or whatever? I am willing to bet you're not getting all the filesystems mounted properly/in their proper place. For ins

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade woes

2010-10-17 Thread Barry Titterton
On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 20:48 +0100, Rob Beard wrote: > On 17/10/10 17:34, Barry Titterton wrote: > > > > I finally found the time to try and fix this machine but I could not get > > this to work when running from a LTS live CD: when running dpkg > > virtually every line in the terminal had "permiss

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade woes

2010-10-17 Thread Rob Beard
On 17/10/10 17:34, Barry Titterton wrote: > On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 12:51 +, Glen Mehn wrote: >> Please please please file against update-manager. >> >> Rob: you can try this: >> Boot from usb stick or live cd >> Mount your filesystems in their correct places, so that your old / is at >> /mounts

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade woes

2010-10-17 Thread Barry Titterton
On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 12:51 +, Glen Mehn wrote: > Please please please file against update-manager. > > Rob: you can try this: > Boot from usb stick or live cd > Mount your filesystems in their correct places, so that your old / is at > /mounts/oldroot > Open a terminal > Type 'chroot /mounts

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade woes

2010-10-15 Thread Rob Beard
On 15/10/10 21:02, Matthew Daubney wrote: > On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 20:58 +0100, Rob Beard wrote: >> On 12/10/10 15:11, Liam Proven wrote: >> >>> I did a fresh install on my Thinkpad X31 laptop, which went fine (but >>> the netbook launcher is comprehensively broken on this hardware). >>> >>> You are

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade woes

2010-10-15 Thread Paul Jones
I did a fresh install the other night for a friend with a very old Acer laptop, it installed ok but it is effectively Ubuntu 10.10 Desktop without the Netbook launcher, I did get an error first time I logged on but didnt take a note of it. On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 20:58 +0100, Rob Beard wrote: > On

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade woes

2010-10-15 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 20:58 +0100, Rob Beard wrote: > On 12/10/10 15:11, Liam Proven wrote: > > > I did a fresh install on my Thinkpad X31 laptop, which went fine (but > > the netbook launcher is comprehensively broken on this hardware). > > > > You are really putting me off trying the upgrade on

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade woes

2010-10-15 Thread Rob Beard
On 12/10/10 15:11, Liam Proven wrote: > I did a fresh install on my Thinkpad X31 laptop, which went fine (but > the netbook launcher is comprehensively broken on this hardware). > > You are really putting me off trying the upgrade on my desktop - but > then, I planned to leave it a few weeks for t

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade woes

2010-10-12 Thread Barry Titterton
On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 14:11 +0100, Liam Proven wrote: > Um... I have to ask. You do know about how to switch between windows > with Alt-Tab and Alt-Shift-Tab, don't you? And that you can drag any > window from any point (not just the title bar) if you hold down the > Alt key as you drag, so you ca

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade woes

2010-10-12 Thread Rob Beard
On 12/10/10 14:11, Liam Proven wrote: > Um... I have to ask. You do know about how to switch between windows > with Alt-Tab and Alt-Shift-Tab, don't you? And that you can drag any > window from any point (not just the title bar) if you hold down the > Alt key as you drag, so you can reposition a w

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade woes

2010-10-12 Thread Liam Proven
On 12 October 2010 14:16, ian pettitt wrote: > On 12/10/10 14:11, Liam Proven wrote: >> On 12 October 2010 07:13, Barry Titterton >>  wrote: >>> I have just tried to upgrade my sickly install of 10.04 to 10.10. The >>> install process failed just after half way when it threw up a window >>> which

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade woes

2010-10-12 Thread Will Bickerstaff
> > That wasn't an option for me - the whole program had hung and the mouse > wasn't responding properly. I actually connected via ssh from my laptop > to fix it, as I was working on that machine whilst the upgrade was > taking place on the desktop. > Both machines I upgraded did exactly this. A r

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade woes

2010-10-12 Thread ian pettitt
On 12/10/10 14:11, Liam Proven wrote: > On 12 October 2010 07:13, Barry Titterton > wrote: >> I have just tried to upgrade my sickly install of 10.04 to 10.10. The >> install process failed just after half way when it threw up a window >> which appeared to be asking me what I wanted to do with my

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade woes

2010-10-12 Thread Liam Proven
On 12 October 2010 07:13, Barry Titterton wrote: > I have just tried to upgrade my sickly install of 10.04 to 10.10. The > install process failed just after half way when it threw up a window > which appeared to be asking me what I wanted to do with my modified > version of GRUB2. This window was

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade woes

2010-10-12 Thread ian pettitt
hn skype: glenmehn > > -Original Message- > From: ian pettitt > Sender: ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com > Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 09:46:30 > To: UK Ubuntu Talk > Reply-To: UK Ubuntu Talk > Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade woes > > On 12/10/10 07:13, Barry Tittert

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade woes

2010-10-12 Thread Glen Mehn
2010 09:46:30 To: UK Ubuntu Talk Reply-To: UK Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade woes On 12/10/10 07:13, Barry Titterton wrote: > I have just tried to upgrade my sickly install of 10.04 to 10.10. The > install process failed just after half way when it threw up a window > w

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade woes

2010-10-12 Thread ian pettitt
On 12/10/10 07:13, Barry Titterton wrote: > I have just tried to upgrade my sickly install of 10.04 to 10.10. The > install process failed just after half way when it threw up a window > which appeared to be asking me what I wanted to do with my modified > version of GRUB2. This window was position

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade woes

2010-10-12 Thread Sean Miller
I would always avoid GUI upgrades... use apt-get instead. Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade woes

2010-10-12 Thread Rob Beard
On 12/10/10 07:13, Barry Titterton wrote: > I have just tried to upgrade my sickly install of 10.04 to 10.10. The > install process failed just after half way when it threw up a window > which appeared to be asking me what I wanted to do with my modified > version of GRUB2. This window was position

[ubuntu-uk] Upgrade woes

2010-10-11 Thread Barry Titterton
I have just tried to upgrade my sickly install of 10.04 to 10.10. The install process failed just after half way when it threw up a window which appeared to be asking me what I wanted to do with my modified version of GRUB2. This window was positioned behind the progress window, and I could only se

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade SAMBA

2010-01-14 Thread Rob Beard
Cornelius Mostert wrote: > Hallo > > I have UBUNTU 8.10 installed and and SAMBA 3.2.3 and would like to > know how to upgrade SAMBA to lets say 3.3.7 (This is what is working > for Win 7: http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Windows7) > I have downloaded 3.3.7 from: http://samba.org/samba/ftp/old-vers

[ubuntu-uk] Upgrade SAMBA

2010-01-14 Thread Cornelius Mostert
Hallo I have UBUNTU 8.10 installed and and SAMBA 3.2.3 and would like to know how to upgrade SAMBA to lets say 3.3.7 (This is what is working for Win 7: http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Windows7) I have downloaded 3.3.7 from: http://samba.org/samba/ftp/old-versions/ And from the Docs: samba-3.3.7/d

Re: [ubuntu-uk] upgrade to 9.04, skip blacklist for desktop effects, system freeze on startup

2009-05-30 Thread doug livesey
Cheers for that -- I went in to recovery mode (didn't even know it existed!) and saw an option to automatically fix graphics problems there, so selected it, and here I am, back in Ubuntu! There are a few other teething problems I'm having that I shall probably be posting here once I've failed to fi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] upgrade to 9.04, skip blacklist for desktop effects, system freeze on startup

2009-05-30 Thread James Milligan
Or live cd? Yay i'm thinking of solutions for ubuntu peeps now! James On 30 May 2009, at 22:59, Saikiran Madugula wrote: > doug livesey wrote: >> So I can't even go in & delete the file that skips the blacklisted >> drivers for compiz. >> Can anyone advise me as to how I can get back to a wo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] upgrade to 9.04, skip blacklist for desktop effects, system freeze on startup

2009-05-30 Thread Saikiran Madugula
doug livesey wrote: > So I can't even go in & delete the file that skips the blacklisted > drivers for compiz. > Can anyone advise me as to how I can get back to a working system? > I'm rather desperate, as my main dev environment is Ubuntu, and I > sort-of need it to do some work! > Cheers, >D

[ubuntu-uk] upgrade to 9.04, skip blacklist for desktop effects, system freeze on startup

2009-05-30 Thread doug livesey
Hi -- so I finally bit the bullet & upgraded to 9.04 on my Macbook 3,1.When will I learn? If it ain't broke ... When I did, it all seemed to go well, but I couldn't enable the desktop effects I had in Ibex, so I googled the problem, & found lots of instructions on how to skip the blacklisting of th

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade vs Reinstall

2009-05-14 Thread Liam Proven
2009/5/13 Dean Sas : > On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 04:29, Liam Proven wrote: >> 2009/5/12 Alan Pope : >>> 2009/5/12 Liam Proven : The key thing is to keep your /home directory tree on a separate partition. That makes re-installing much less painful and fiddly. >>> >>> Not really. You ca

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade vs Reinstall

2009-05-13 Thread Dean Sas
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 04:29, Liam Proven wrote: > 2009/5/12 Alan Pope : >> 2009/5/12 Liam Proven : >>> The key thing is to keep your /home directory tree on a separate >>> partition. That makes re-installing much less painful and fiddly. >>> >> >> Not really. You can reinstall over the top these

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade vs Reinstall

2009-05-12 Thread Liam Proven
2009/5/12 Alan Pope : > 2009/5/12 Liam Proven : >> The key thing is to keep your /home directory tree on a separate >> partition. That makes re-installing much less painful and fiddly. >> > > Not really. You can reinstall over the top these days and it will wipe > everything except /home - even if

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade vs Reinstall

2009-05-12 Thread Liam Proven
2009/5/12 Tony Pursell : > Hi all > > I have upgraded all the way from Warty to Jaunty with no problems > due to the upgrade process going wrong. > > Cheers > Tony *Boggle* Wow! Well, I'm impressed! -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade vs Reinstall

2009-05-12 Thread Tony Pursell
Hi all I have upgraded all the way from Warty to Jaunty with no problems due to the upgrade process going wrong. Cheers Tony -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade vs Reinstall

2009-05-12 Thread Alan Pope
2009/5/12 Liam Proven : > The key thing is to keep your /home directory tree on a separate > partition. That makes re-installing much less painful and fiddly. > Not really. You can reinstall over the top these days and it will wipe everything except /home - even if it's all on one partition. This

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade vs Reinstall

2009-05-12 Thread Liam Proven
2009/5/12 Lucy : > 2009/5/12 Robert Longstaff : >>> Hi -- I was just wondering, why it is that the community-at-large seems to >>> think that it is better to reinstall to a newer version of Ubuntu rather >>> than to run the upgrade? >> >> I'm personally an 'install from fresh' person, but that's >>

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade vs Reinstall

2009-05-12 Thread John
I'm not very good with upgrades and things, so I was really pleased when I upgraded using the upgrade tool, to find that it worked perfectly too. I was kind of dreading it, with my past experience with messing things up, but I was very impressed. John. jim.came...@buhlersortex.com wrote: > Luc

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade vs Reinstall

2009-05-12 Thread jim.cameron
Lucy : > The upgrade I just did downloaded over a gig worth of data, > but as I'm on a fast connection the entire install was > complete in about 30-40 minutes. If I was on a slower > connection I would probably have been better off using a cd > instead. On the other hand, f I had less installed on

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade vs Reinstall

2009-05-12 Thread doug livesey
Well, then I stand corrected! ;) When I installed Ibex on my Macbook, there was loads of buggering around in the config files to get things like the touchpad scrolling working, and loads of sound issues, and other things which I don't recall just to hand. Which is fair enough, as there's a hell of

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade vs Reinstall

2009-05-12 Thread Lucy
2009/5/12 Robert Longstaff : >> Hi -- I was just wondering, why it is that the community-at-large seems to >> think that it is better to reinstall to a newer version of Ubuntu rather >> than to run the upgrade? > > I'm personally an 'install from fresh' person, but that's > just me ;) > > Otherwise

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade vs Reinstall

2009-05-12 Thread Robert Longstaff
> Hi -- I was just wondering, why it is that the community-at-large seems to > think that it is better to reinstall to a newer version of Ubuntu rather > than to run the upgrade? I'm personally an 'install from fresh' person, but that's just me ;) Otherwise, I heard two anecdotal stories at a rec

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade vs Reinstall

2009-05-12 Thread Lucy
2009/5/12 Alan Pope : > 2009/5/12 doug livesey : >> Hi -- I was just wondering, why it is that the community-at-large seems to >> think that it is better to reinstall to a newer version of Ubuntu rather >> than to run the upgrade? > > What makes you think they do? > > Perhaps these people are used

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade vs Reinstall

2009-05-12 Thread James Milligan
I wouldn't say that upgrading is unreliable in Windows - a clean install is always a better option, and technically safer, but upgrading is also quite reliable. James On 12 May 2009, at 11:53, Alan Pope wrote: > 2009/5/12 doug livesey : >> Hi -- I was just wondering, why it is that the comm

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade vs Reinstall

2009-05-12 Thread Alan Bell
doug livesey wrote: > Hi -- I was just wondering, why it is that the community-at-large > seems to think that it is better to reinstall to a newer version of > Ubuntu rather than to run the upgrade? > Cheers, >Doug. personally I think the install process is such a pleasure to use it would be

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade vs Reinstall

2009-05-12 Thread Alan Pope
2009/5/12 doug livesey : > Hi -- I was just wondering, why it is that the community-at-large seems to > think that it is better to reinstall to a newer version of Ubuntu rather > than to run the upgrade? What makes you think they do? Perhaps these people are used to Windows/Fedora/Red Hat where u

[ubuntu-uk] Upgrade vs Reinstall

2009-05-12 Thread doug livesey
Hi -- I was just wondering, why it is that the community-at-large seems to think that it is better to reinstall to a newer version of Ubuntu rather than to run the upgrade? Cheers, Doug. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UK

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade 9.04

2009-04-28 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Greenwood wrote: ... > If you use the -O (minus sign then capital 'oh', not zero) on the wget > command, you can give it the name of the file to write out. That > simplifies the following line: > > >> sudo mv pastebin.php\?dl\=f3944dadb /etc/apt

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade 9.04

2009-04-28 Thread Neil Greenwood
2009/4/27 Harry Rickards : > > There's a couple of other changes you might need to make, so I've put an > updated source.list for you at http://pastebin.com/f3944dadb. To replace > your current one with the updated one, just do the following in a terminal: > > cd > sudo cp /etc/apt/sources.list /et

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade 9.04

2009-04-28 Thread Neil Greenwood
2009/4/27 Harry Rickards : > > Sorry, I've just re-read your original email. It seems you were using > update-manager. > > Open up your source.list > >        sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list > It's better if you use 'gksu' or 'gksudo' instead of 'sudo' for a graphical program, especially if you'

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade 9.04

2009-04-27 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Taylor wrote: > Harry Rickards wrote: > John Taylor wrote: > Harry Rickards wrote: John Taylor wrote: >>> Harry Rickards wrote: >>> John Taylor wrote: >>> >>> >>> >> Ala

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade 9.04

2009-04-27 Thread John Taylor
Harry Rickards wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > John Taylor wrote: > >> Harry Rickards wrote: >> John Taylor wrote: >> >> > Harry Rickards wrote: > John Taylor wrote: > > > Alan Pope wrote:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade 9.04

2009-04-27 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Harry Rickards wrote: > Harry Rickards wrote: >> John Taylor wrote: >>> Harry Rickards wrote: >>> Are you trying to install from a Jaunty CD, or via the internet? If via >>> the internet, try changing the following line in /etc/apt/sources.list: > >>

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade 9.04

2009-04-27 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Harry Rickards wrote: > John Taylor wrote: >> Harry Rickards wrote: >> John Taylor wrote: > > Harry Rickards wrote: > John Taylor wrote: > > Alan Pope wrote: > 2009/4/26 John T

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade 9.04

2009-04-27 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Taylor wrote: > Harry Rickards wrote: > John Taylor wrote: > Harry Rickards wrote: John Taylor wrote: >>> Alan Pope wrote: >>> >>> 2009/4/26 John Taylor :

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade 9.04

2009-04-27 Thread John Taylor
Harry Rickards wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > John Taylor wrote: > >> Harry Rickards wrote: >> John Taylor wrote: >> >> > Alan Pope wrote: > > >> 2009/4/26 John Taylor : >> >> >> >>> Seem

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade 9.04

2009-04-26 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Taylor wrote: > Harry Rickards wrote: > John Taylor wrote: > Alan Pope wrote: > 2009/4/26 John Taylor : > > >> Seems to fail during calculating changes - could not calculate upgrade >> >> any ide

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade 9.04

2009-04-26 Thread John Taylor
Harry Rickards wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > John Taylor wrote: > >> Alan Pope wrote: >> >>> 2009/4/26 John Taylor : >>> >>> Seems to fail during calculating changes - could not calculate upgrade any ideas? never happened before! >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade 9.04

2009-04-26 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Taylor wrote: > Alan Pope wrote: >> 2009/4/26 John Taylor : >> >>> Seems to fail during calculating changes - could not calculate upgrade >>> >>> any ideas? never happened before! >>> >>> >> How did you try to upgrade? >> Can you attac

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade 9.04

2009-04-26 Thread John Taylor
Alan Pope wrote: > 2009/4/26 John Taylor : > >> Seems to fail during calculating changes - could not calculate upgrade >> >> any ideas? never happened before! >> >> > > How did you try to upgrade? > Can you attach your /etc/apt/sources.list and the contents of any > files in /etc/apt/so

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade 9.04

2009-04-26 Thread Alan Pope
2009/4/26 John Taylor : > Seems to fail during calculating changes - could not calculate upgrade > > any ideas? never happened before! > How did you try to upgrade? Can you attach your /etc/apt/sources.list and the contents of any files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@l

[ubuntu-uk] Upgrade 9.04

2009-04-26 Thread John Taylor
Seems to fail during calculating changes - could not calculate upgrade any ideas? never happened before! John -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade to Hardy: Fail!

2008-03-11 Thread Stephen Garton
Morning all, On 11/03/2008, James Westby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The error messages that you get before being dropped in to the shell > would help us to diagnose the problem and try and fix it. Can you > transcribe at least the last few lines in to an email? > I'm not getting any error m

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade to Hardy: Fail!

2008-03-11 Thread James Westby
On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 20:45 +, Stephen Garton wrote: > Evening all, > > I wanted to help log bugs etc in Hardy, but have hit a bit of a snag- > I can't do anything apart from boot into recovery mode from grub! If I > choose(or let grub choose) the default kernel, I get nothing. > > I can manu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade to Hardy: Fail!

2008-03-11 Thread Rob Beard
Stephen Garton wrote: > Evening all, > > I wanted to help log bugs etc in Hardy, but have hit a bit of a snag- > I can't do anything apart from boot into recovery mode from grub! If I > choose(or let grub choose) the default kernel, I get nothing. > > I can manually start up eth0 from the recover

[ubuntu-uk] Upgrade to Hardy: Fail!

2008-03-11 Thread Stephen Garton
Evening all, I wanted to help log bugs etc in Hardy, but have hit a bit of a snag- I can't do anything apart from boot into recovery mode from grub! If I choose(or let grub choose) the default kernel, I get nothing. I can manually start up eth0 from the recovery console, is there any way I can do

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade to Gutsy- Via Live CD or via Synaptic!

2007-10-24 Thread Alan Pope
Hi, On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 11:44 +, STONE COLD wrote: > Will Synaptic be able to configure my partitions like i currently have > them! ? > > Pros and cons?which one? > Technically you can't "upgrade" using the live CD. You can re-install over the top which will lose all your current applic

[ubuntu-uk] Upgrade to Gutsy- Via Live CD or via Synaptic!

2007-10-24 Thread STONE COLD
just wondering which would be better! Will Synaptic be able to configure my partitions like i currently have them! ? Pros and cons?which one? Javad-- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] upgrade to Fiesty

2007-04-18 Thread Dave Walker
On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 08:22 +0100, Tony Arnold wrote: > > baz wrote: > > > > Any idea why NVU is not in the repositories for Feisty? > > It's been dropped from the repositories as it is "Umaintained by upstream."[1] It hasn't been updated since 28-06-2005 however there is an unofficial bug-

Re: [ubuntu-uk] upgrade to Fiesty

2007-04-18 Thread Tony Arnold
baz wrote: > Thanks that seemed to go ok, only lost Nvu, which I've now installed > from their site. Any idea why NVU is not in the repositories for Feisty? Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold, IT Security Coordinator, University of Manchester, IT Services Division, Kilburn Building, Oxford Road, M

Re: [ubuntu-uk] upgrade to Fiesty

2007-04-17 Thread baz
On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 19:40 +0100, Kris Marsh wrote: > On 4/17/07, baz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, what's the best way to upgrade? I'm running Edgy at the mo. > > > > Baz > > Hi Baz, > > Here is the method I used, around a month ago. I'm sure the upgrade > will be fine for you, but the usu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] upgrade to Fiesty

2007-04-17 Thread TheVeech
Stating the obvious, I know, but just a word of warning: I've had updates to a new release fail miserably, so be sure to back up your data beforehand in case the short cut turns out to be anything but. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki

Re: [ubuntu-uk] upgrade to Fiesty

2007-04-17 Thread Chris Rowson
> I got this by typing update-manager --help in a terminal: > > Usage: update-manager [options] Thanks Eamonn - I guess I should have thought of that :-P !! Chris -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

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