Re: problem running karmic on desktop pc

2010-02-28 Thread Ignasi Cambra
When booting from the cd, you need to press enter for english, f5, then 3, then enter twice. On Feb 27, 2010, at 7:18 PM, michael weaver wrote: i seem to be having problems on my desktop pc with karmic. i wait until my cd stops spinning in bootup only i can still he the fan for my cd drive,

upgrading one version of ubuntu to another

2010-02-28 Thread michael weaver
someone at my linux usergroup or lug once said to me that i don't need to do fresh installs when upgrading from one version of ubuntu to another. if this is so is the most accessiable way for someone totally blind to do it who doesn't have a sighted person around whose family are not linux

Re: upgrading one version of ubuntu to another

2010-02-28 Thread Storm Dragon
Hi, You can do sudo update-manager -d from the terminal, but I have never had good results from doing it this way. Thee's another command you can use from the big terminal but I don't exactly remember the syntax. It was something like sudo do-release-upgrade. I thik that may be the way to go for