[Sussex] New Ubuntu (11.04) older PC (about 5 y.o.) and how, to get it sorted - possible fur

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On , Desmond Armstrong <desmond.armstrong at gmail.com> wrote:
> This whole business of upgrading and downgrading is, in my experience,  
> fraught.
> For this reason I am very careful, when installing systems to maintain  
> a '/' partition and a '/home' partition.
> With such arrangement it does become very easy to simply reinstall the  
> system while leaving the '/home' partition with the data undisturbed. It  
> also allows for easy copying of any user data.
> The way forward will be to save any data, this you can do using puppy,  
> and simply do clean install.
> For what it is worth, this would be my method.
> As for desktop, I do prefer gnome and while Unity does have some nice  
> aspects I am not particularly enthralled.

Well I've been keeping a seperate /home for about 7 or so years Desmond and  
we set my aunts up in the same way, when I first installed the *buntu for  
her to dual boot (4 or so years ago).

It's just proving a complete PITA getting it sorted out, whether it's  
this "Clocksource Tsc unstable" thing, and/or the nvidia driver thing, I  
don't know. My levels of knowledge are of the "try the obvious" level and  
most other stuff
is over my head.

Hence it's why we're trying Steve W's suggestion from my original post to  
downgrade her Ubuntu back to 10.04LTS. It's just that at the moment it  
won't boot from a CD and .deb doesn't support downgrades. So I'm hoping for  
any advice that might
help me get it to boot a CD, then we can just (hopefully) install the 10.04  
to the / so that we can use an older nvidia driver, that does seem to  
work/have support......

regards

John D.
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