[Hudlug] updating a version of ubuntu

[michael weaver]

i was trying to upgrade from hardy to lucid or at least from 
hardy to karmic.
the reason why i am trying to get as far as at least karmic is 
because the network icon is accessible in karmic when using a 
laptop which it doesn't appear to be in previous versions of 
ubuntu.
i tried to do a fresh install of karmic from the live cd only for 
some reason orca seems to want to go through the settup and it 
seems very fussy when trying to choose the accessibility profile 
which you have to enable during the bootup process and you have 
to get the timeing right which i have only successfully managed 
to do the first few times i ran the live cd.
i tried to install the lucid beta from a cd or should i say a 
re-writable dvd only the same problems enabling accessibility and 
when running orca manually which again forces you to go through 
the setup ie choice of keyboard etc, you get orca saying 
something like "press enter to continue and speech just stops and 
i cannot force my laptop to restart in the hope that speech will 
be enabled and that i might actually land on the desktop to be 
able to do an actual install of a lucid system.

> ----- Original Message -----
>From: Simon Wears <munkyjunky at googlemail.com
>To: HudLUG - Huddersfield Linux User Group 
<hudlug at mailman.lug.org.uk
>Date sent: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 17:09:18 +0100
>Subject: Re: [Hudlug] updating a version of ubuntu

>Michael,

>What version of Ubuntu were you trying to upgrade from, and which 
version
>where you trying to upgrade to?

>--
>Simon Wears
>http://MunkyJunky.com