norman wrote: <snip> > Thanks for your commiserations and wishes. I am almost decided to go > back to 8.04 but I am not yet sure of the most effective way to do this > with the least hassle. Any suggestions, please.
If you have /home on a separate partition, back it up, and do a fresh install of Hardy; but select 'Manual partition', set up /root, swap, and /home, but chose NOT to format /home. Only problem with this is that some of your apps may have configuration files in /home that won't be compatible with 8.04's older versions. When an application complains, you can often fix this simply by renaming the hidden configuration file in /home (they'll be folders with names like .mozilla and .liferea_1.6 or whatever); a lot of common apps just create a new configuration file in /home if there isn't one there already. If you don't have a separate /home partition, back up your /home folder, do a clean install, and restore any data you need from your old /home folder. Can't think of anything else. Some of the very experienced folk here may have better ideas. mac -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
