[ubuntu-za] Nasty Narwhal what a disappointment

[David Rubin]

Hi Nick

I am sorry you had such a bad experience. See my comments below.

On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Nico Michael (pta at ibst) <
nick.michael at ptaisp.co.za> wrote:

> Hi there
>
> I had installed Ubuntu 10:10 on my laptop and quite a few applications
>
> I then got the ubuntu-11.04-alternate-i386 ISO file and burned a CD and
> successfully verified the CD.
>
> I believed it would upgrade my Linux.

I then booted from this CD believeing it would upgrade my Ubuntu 10:10 to
> Natty Narwhal
> Only to find out it wiped out my entire installation.
>

This above was your mistake. You *can* use the alternate cd to provide a
sort of local repo for upgrading. BUT this is only done from with in an
already existing ubuntu install.

During the install there are warnings saying it will format your
disk/partion.

Was there a reason you chose not to upgrade the normal way via the network?


>
> To add salt to the wound the main menu is lost  and I could not figure out
> how to get it back
>

As far as I know Unity (which Ubuntu Natty uses) does not have a main menu
(at least in the way you were used to.

>
> I installed crossover for Linux and the Microsoft Office 2007
> In the previous version I could add buttons on the top for MS word and
> Excel however I could not figure how to do that .
>
> I could not even create an icon on the desktop for Word
>
> I hate this thing on the left as I have to search for Word every time I
> want to  run MS Word
>
> Is there a way to recover the main menu and to get ikons on the desktop?
>

I can't help you with any thing MS Office related sorry.


>
> Alternatively is there a way to downgrade the desktop back to Ubuntu 1010
>  ?
>

Since this is a "clean" wiped out install why not simply install with 10.10?


>
> regards
> Nick
>


Generally before upgrading an OS it is good practice

David
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