[Nottingham] Running Ubuntu at Nottingham Uni

[Cat Clarkson]

Typical, 5 weeks before I stop working on University Campus and I discover
you *can* get IT to let you dual boot! Ah well, might leave a little note
in my desk drawer letting the next PhD student know!

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Barry Drake <ubuntu-advertising at gmx.com>wrote:

> On 22/05/12 13:26, ForkBombFluf wrote:
>
>> Upgrading in Linux shouldn't harm or rearrange anything in your
>> bootloader (although the same can't always be said for Windows
>> installations!) so moving to a newer long term support version should be
>> good.  I think Barry's just advised a fresh install rather than an in place
>> upgrade though, and I have to admit I'm curious what sort of issues he's
>> encountered with upgrading.
>>
>
> Most of the issues were with people who really had no idea what they were
> doing and who didn't seem to know what 'backing up data' was.  But one or
> two of them did get the bootloader clobbered!  Some of the problems were
> due to a CD being made using Windows - the iso is very slightly oversized
> and they had tried to use it to upgrade rather than the updater.  But I
> think the most common problem was that the upgrade failed part way through
> possibly because of connection failure and left them with an un-bootable
> system.
>
> Another problem was those who thought they had Ubuntu 'installed' when
> they were using wubi.  Upgrades in a wubi system just don't seem to work
> most of the time.
>
> My advice has always been to back up all data - in the Windows system as
> well if they are dual booting.  Then to run 12.04 from the live DVD to make
> sure it's OK on their hardware, and only then do the installation using the
> defaults right the way through.  Folk who are not geeks trying to partition
> manually always seem to have got it wrong.  Mostly they have ended up with
> the bootloader in a partition and not in the boot sector ....  I've been
> hanging out on: https://answers.launchpad.net/**ubuntu<https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu>- if anyone is interested, the first few days after 12.04 release date say
> it all!  Oh, and then there are the folk who use the 64 bit version and
> then can't install a whole lot of apps they want to run ....
>
> myunity is a neat little app that lets you re-size the launcher among
> other things ...  well worth getting.  Also, if you haven't used it before,
> press and hold the Super key (the one that was formerly called the
> 'Windows' key for legacy reasons).
>
> Having said that, I didn't encounter any problems at all myself, but then
> I always do a clean install as an easy way of keeping my system tidy.
>
>
> Regards,        Barry.
>
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>
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