Re: wireless problem with upgrade to 20.04 LTS / and live DVD installation for 22.04 failing

2022-07-04 Thread David
Thank you for those links, Chris. I didn't know about startup disk creator in Ubuntu - it must be so long ago I last looked at the USB option - and that made it so easy to get the 22.04 ISO onto a USB and it showed up in the boot list and the installation went smoothly. The wireless Internet

Re: wireless problem with upgrade to 20.04 LTS / and live DVD installation for 22.04 failing

2022-07-02 Thread Chris Guiver
> Can you recommend any sites or webpages that explain simply how to install > by putting the ISO file onto a USB stick, or how to create a partition and > get the ISO file into it and then run the installation? I'll provide the following links -

Re: wireless problem with upgrade to 20.04 LTS / and live DVD installation for 22.04 failing

2022-07-01 Thread David
Hi Chris thanks for your time. The laptop on which I have been using Ubuntu, since around 2013 (and the laptop is older than that) is a Lenovo T400. It has working USB ports. The version of Ubuntu that I am trying to install is the version for desktop PCs and laptops. You reckon it could

Re: wireless problem with upgrade to 20.04 LTS / and live DVD installation for 22.04 failing

2022-07-01 Thread Chris Guiver
G'day I'm involved with QA & in particular a flavor, if my background is helpful. You mention old hardware; I've used devices from 2003 and upwards in the QA; though i386 devices were not used beyond 19.04 except for respins of 18.04 (eg. 18.04.4 & 18.04.5) > Last week I decided to move up from

wireless problem with upgrade to 20.04 LTS / and live DVD installation for 22.04 failing

2022-07-01 Thread David
Hi folks, I’m hoping you could guess at what’s going wrong with my upgrade attempts. I have run Ubuntu on an old laptop with an internal optical drive for years and have in the past installed new LTSs via the ISO burned onto a DVD-R. For LTS 18.04 I used a rewritable DVD, and have never before