Hi Dave, On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:28:19PM +0000, Dave Sones wrote: > My only serious problem occurred when I tried (for the first time ever) > to do an on-line upgrade from 9.04, rather than a clean install. It was > a disaster. It took hours to complete and once done, the system wouldn't > even boot correctly. I tried to fix it, but in the end gave up and just > did a clean install, which worked perfectly. PartImage, which I highly > recommend (on the SystemRescueCD - www.sysresccd.org/Download) got me > out of trouble initially, by restoring my original 9.04 set-up. >
I'm very interested to know exactly what happened in between:-
"the system wouldn't even boot correctly"
and
"gave up and just did a clean install"
Because I see a _lot_ of people complaining that the upgrade breaks, and
they then do a clean install, but I never get to hear what steps they took
to _attempt_ to fix it inbetween those two things happening.
Did you attempt to fix it alone?
What kinds of things did you try to do to fix it (if you can recall)?
What support networks did you try?
* Google?
* Ubuntu Forurms (http://ubuntuforums.org/
* IRC (#ubuntu / #ubuntu-uk)
* Launchpad Answers (http://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu)
* LUG ?
Of those that you tried, did you use them passively (search for an answer)
or actively (post the problem and request help)?
All the best,
Al.
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