Re: upgrading ubuntu to 9.1

Was it 8.04 or 9.04? As far as I am aware you are only supposed to
upgrade one Ubuntu version at a time (IE not jump over a version)
otherwise things go very pear shaped.

Rene

2009/12/3 chris morris <[email protected]>:
> I have an old pc that runs perfectly on the unbuntu 9.10 liveCD
> When you try to install, it gets as far as the partitioning window and shows
> no drives at all.
> Even though it can see and mount the drive whilst in liveCD mode.
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> So using liveCD mode I used Gparted to delete all partitions from the drive
> Tried the install again and same problem - no drive shown.
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> So I used Gparted to create partitions manually and then tried the install -
> same problem no drives shown.
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> So I booted from an older Ubuntu 8.04 CD and installed that without issue.
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> Then, with a fresh install of 8.04 present, used the "upgrade to 9.10"
> feature from the update manager.
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> 2 hours later after downloads and file updating is done it requires a
> reboot.
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> No GUI and all sorts of xserver errors - oh yay!
> ( to be honest I half expected that because I've NEVER had one of those
> upgrades actually work )
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> So ran dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and managed to get GUI up as far as the
> login screen.
> After logging in it turns to poop with what looks like 4 desktop spaces
> squashed into one and masses of horizontal lines making anything unreadable.
>
> Any ideas as to how to get my screen back?
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> chris
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