2008/5/1 Chris G cl@isbd.net:
If I was you I'd consider Xubuntu for an all round faster Ubuntu experience.
http://xubuntu.org/ of course.. 8.04 is brilliant. Unfortunately the best way to get it is to do a fresh install, however if you backup your
Yes, I'd agree with that, I nearly always do a clean install when upgrading. Apart from anything else it loses all the various bits of junk you inevitably accumulate.
entire home directory including all the hidden folders, you will retain most if not all your settings. Not sure about wireless settings though.. Have a little Google around to find out where they're stored.
Depending on how the disk is partitioned (i.e. if /home is a separate partition) you may simply be able to upgrade the installation and retain /home. I'd still back it up though, it's very easy to confuse partitions at install time.
Wireless settings (and other similar system wide settings) will probably be in /etc, make a copy of that and then use information from the old one to configure the new one.
-- Chris Green
I've upgrade to 8.04. As I had my /home dir on a separate partition I just reinstalled /, as mentioned above I believe this is the best way to do it.
But I've two problems. 1/ I can no longer use the numeric key pad. Nothing happens if I use these keys, regardless or weather num lock is on or not. It used to worked on 7.10. Got any ideas as what I can check or change.
2/ I installed 8.04 onto my wifes laptop (I convinced her to drop WinXP in favour of Ubuntu), but compriz is not working. The laptop is an ASUS Aspire 1300 with a ProSavage (KN133) graphics chip. Which as I understand support 3D with the savage xorg driver. I think the problem is that the new xorg is not detecting the ProSavage correctly as it seems to be using the vesa driver. Can anyone tell me how to change the drive the X uses?
Thanks