[ubuntu-za] Nasty Narwhal what a disappointment

[Nico Michael (pta@ibst)]

Hi Dave

At the previous Ubuntu launch party I was told "to upgrade Ubuntu you just boot up from the Alternate CD and it will upgrade your machine"
that is why I booted from that CD ...... and wiped out my installation ................. it was done in .............. good faith ............ I listen to what the people tell me .

Thanks for the info

I was spoiled in the previous few years when I was a SUSE fan
SUSE Linux recognises a SUSE installation on the target machine and offers you an option to upgrade

Don't worry about Office ,  I also installed Other Linux programs from ...deb  files and  I can see them in a screen somewhere and can launch them from that screen,
but would like to have a launch button on top or on desk top

Can one do that with Natty?

Is there a way to choose/change  the desktop during/after  install ?                I would prefer Gnome if its possible.  I don't like this new thing.

May be I should re-install the Ubuntu from the  ubuntu-11.04-desktop-i386.iso file and try a fresh install?
Now that I have lost everything and ..................all



regards
Nick

On 2011-04-30 19:40, David Rubin wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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.
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>     I believed it would upgrade my Linux. 
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>     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.
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> Was there a reason you chose not to upgrade the normal way via the network?
>  
>
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>     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 .
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>     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?
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>
> I can't help you with any thing MS Office related sorry.
>  
>
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>     Alternatively is there a way to downgrade the desktop back to Ubuntu 1010  ?
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> Since this is a "clean" wiped out install why not simply install with 10.10?
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>
>     regards
>     Nick
>
>
>
> Generally before upgrading an OS it is good practice 
>
> David
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