To upgrade or not to upgrade to 9.10

[tork]

Just wondering if I should or just leave well enough alone until 2.4. Thanks!!

[Cell]

Are you running on ext4?Do you know how to roll your graphic driver to a generic one?Do you feel safe putting an os that's only been released a few days ago on your machine?Have you read up on problems that might happen with an upgrade?Are you cool with working in a cli with no gui? Have you checked out the Ubuntu forum for the good,bad,and ugly?


The list can go on...and on.Whats really important is what you want.My point is tho...nobody should just "do it" with out research,and asking "if I should do it" will get you nowhere.

Oh ya...back up your home.Use remastersys.(not sure if they have the new version out yet to handle ext4/grub2).
Or make a tar of your system..ect.just back up!

[sedge]

Hi
I would wait for 2.4.
I tried to install Kubuntu 9.10 and ended up with a black screen and a mouse pointer, kde and gnome would not install the only things that worked was to log in as root or use XFCE .
I tried Debian 5.0 and ended up with the same problem KDE and Gnome reported broken packages.
It seems to me that Grub2 and the new Xorg is a step to far.
Who decided to get rid of CTRL_ALT_BKSP to close xorg.conf.new. X kept telling me it could not find screens but I could not find out how to fix it it told me that "mode was not allowed".
So back to good old Ultimate Edition 2.2 (upgrade to 2.3) and wait for "thee man" to allow us lowly mortals to use 2.4
In anticipation
sedge

[Cell]

Who decided to get rid of CTRL_ALT_BKSP to close xorg.conf.

Lol.CTRL_ALT_BKSP is still there.You just have to turn it on.In 2.4 you will have to go into the keyboard settings,and do it.

The new xorg. doesn't use xorg.conf files anymore...Which is a good thing in MHO.

If your having trouble installing those distro's I suspect you might have trouble installing 2.4.

well see...

[sedge]

Hi
This was using the latest 2.6.28.31? kernel.
If I logged into a root command line prompt through recovery mode startx would start Kubuntu 9.10 without problem.
As an ordinary user startup booted to the log in screen logging in as an ordinary user produced the KDE startup screen this opened the desktop screen which then closed and left a blank screen with the mouse pointer.
I tried to install Gnome but this returned a message about broken packages.
Using XFCE as a window manager allowed me to log in without difficulty with access to all the KDE applications.
Reading the posts on the forum I was not the only one to have this problem.
One of the announcements on the home page would infer that the developers realize they have problems that needs addressing.
I was asked to post the specs of my machine which I did this elicited zero replies.
I have an Asrock 939A8X-M motherboard, AMD Athlon 64 4000+ processor, 2 gig memory, sda 300gig, sdb 80gig, and an NVidia 7800 card with a Dell E173FP monitor.
I tried turning on CTRL_ALT_BKSPCE but I had got myself into such a muddle by then it did not work.
Could it be a kernel problem?
Any thought or observations would be appreciated
sedge

[Admin-Amir]

Hello sedge.

Here is my Answer to you
viewtopic.php?f=65&t=4034&start=0

[sedge]

Hi
I have downloaded 2.4-x64,
I have tried to burn it with Brasero and Kb3 with my in built dvd writer both refuse to write it and return an input output error I have had this problem with previous versions of Ultimate edition.
I have an external dvd writer that reads and writes most formats I was successful in writing previous working versions with this.
This time it wrote to disk but it will not boot.
I do not know how to carry out the checksum procedure.
Any help would be appreciated.
sedge

[kiwinsn]

Hi sedge

Open Terminal and cd to the folder you downloaded the file to.

Type md5sum ult

then hit tab...it should auto complete. If not, keep typing in letters and/or numbers until it does.

Once the full file name is there, press enter.

The md5 check sum will show up after a while, which you can compare to the provided one.

As to the burn problem, the easiest way around is to use a flash drive (min 4gb) as long as your mobo allows bootin from flash drives.

Under System - Administration( I think - I'm at work and can't remember) there is a USB installation link. Follow your nose with it and all should be good.

If you can't...ensure you burn the DVD at the SLOWEST possible speed...to avoid errors.

Good luck...

Cheers

[Admin-Amir]

sedge

kiwinsn is right with his solution for you how to do it.
there is one more way to do it before you burn the DVD with K3b.
you can see here one sec before you make the burn process,
were is the md5sum is.
so if the md5sum is not the same "DO NOT BURN THE DISC".

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here is A Video that I have made few years ago on K3b and how to burn Disc:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 676743098#