Stupidly, I upgraded my ancient laptop to 13.04 and am now in a world of slowness. I'm running in dual-boot mode alongside Win XP. I've seen other similar requests and the answer is reinstall. My question is how? I've put my 12.04 cd in and it boots ok and asks me if I want to install but then just hangs.
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I just installed a new version of Ubuntu and I want to roll it back to the previous version.  How can I do that? Is that even possible?
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I had 13.04 before. In response to a popup to upgrade to 13.10, I clicked yes, and the whole thing went on autopilot overnight. Woke up this morning, and it's stuck at "unpacking X.org". I forced the machine to restart, but failed.  Many had this problem and the suggestion is to execute:  sudo dpkg –configure -a   But this did not work for me. The error was something like some file missing.
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So I have Ubuntu installed on my pc, and I want to upgrade to the new Ubuntu which was just released. When I check for any new updates it doesn't show any upgrades to the new release. How can I fix this? Thanks!
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Are there still general problems using the Ubuntu 64bit version ? I heard that most of the programs do not work out of the box?  Will I notice a significant speed-boost? Until now I have always used Ubuntu 32 bit.
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As of 8/2 I'm still unable to upgrade from 16.04 to 18.04 using the do-release-upgrade command. Still "No new release found." I don't remember it ever taking this long before. And I'd rather not use -d , cause I want to stay on the LTS.  I know they said it'd be a few days, but it's been like a week.. Was there an unexpected delay or something?
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First, I hope that this is not a duplicate, because I found my question quite strange and unique, and I don't have any idea with it.  These days I heard of the new Ubuntu release, version 13.10 and I am quite excited. I have been stuck in 12.04 for such a long time and it's time for a good upgrade. So...I ran update-manager -d and tried to go up to 12.10. (I decided to go up one by one) It took a very long time to download all the required kernel and packages...and soon installing...and some questions asking me if I want to replace the old config files. I did some tweaking with that system before (changing startup applications, TMPFS, zram-enabler, etc) and I thought that it will cause a real crash if I keep these config files. So, I replaced all of them but it goes too slow and it's time I've to go to school. I asked my grandfather if he could help me to click all the 'Replace' buttons for me and shut down the computer after the upgrade finished.  When I was back from school, he told me that he accidentally clicked 'Keep' for the last popup box, and my computer can't function now. The grub menu is still there (made it appear by using the SHIFT key trick), and the splash screen is still visible, and I hope that the login screen is still there, or at least the tty so that I can still do a rescue, but nothing worked. CTRL+ALT+F1 does nothing, and I am sure that the monitor is still functioning.  So what can I do now?
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I have a dilemma and I don't know what to do.   Currently I have Ubuntu 14.04 64 bit installed along side Windows 7 64 bit and everything works wonderfully.   I recently started a course about Assembly on Linux and the professor recommended downloading Ubuntu 12.04 32 bit.   I downloaded the iso file and loaded it on to a USB.   When I first installed Ubuntu 14.04, it gave me the following 3 options:  1) install Ubuntu alongside Windows  2) delete Window and install Ubuntu 3) Something Else   I choose the first option. However, when I attempted to install Ubuntu 12.04 32bit along side Ubuntu 14.04 64 Bit and Windows 64 bit, the first option was gone. Instead I was given the following 3 options:  1) Delete 14.04 and install 12.04 in its place  2) Delete both 14.04 and Windows 7 and install 12.04 as replacement  3) Something Else   My question is this: is it advisable to install Ubuntu 12.04 32 bit along side Ubuntu 14.04 64 bit and Windows 7 as the Ubuntu Installer no longer gives me this option? Should I just go ahead and replace 14.04 with 12.04 for the duration of time that I would need it. I don't want to delete 14.04 but I will if need be. I also like the current Dual boot option Ubuntu has put in place so if making a 4th partition through way of "Something Else" would delete that, I would much rather delete 14.04 to make room for 12.04. Again my preference would be to have Ubuntu 12.04 32 bit appear alongside Ubuntu 14.04 64 bit and Windows 7 when I boot my computer, but short of that, I would settle for Ubuntu 12.04 32 bit appearing alongside Windows 7 for the time being. I look forward to your advice.
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Is it better to install Ubuntu completely new or is the upgrade process just as good? In other words, will my computer run just as problem-free and efficiently when I upgrade as opposed to a fresh install?
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My friend borrowed my laptop for a while and when he gave it back he said he replaced Windows 7 with Ubuntu. I asked him to switch it back simply because I prefer Windows. He claims not to know how. I don't want to go buy a new windows 7 disc I just want to figure out how to get rid of this Ubuntu and Windows 7. If anyone knows a way please let me know...
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Is it possible to put the entire operating system on a ram disk? If I have 16 GB of RAM and it is an Intel Xeon. I don't have an SSD and my hard drive is killing my boot time. So can I just allocate some of my ram to work as if it were an SSD and install windows and vital software on it, to gain super fast speed. Or is it more trouble then its worth and would be better off just buying an SSD?
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After the most recent kernel upgrade, my system hangs during boot.  Since my machine seems especially persnickety about pulling up the grub menu*, what is the best way to set the previous kernel as the default until the next upgrade?  *I have to hit ESC at exactly the right moment, which usually means rebooting several times until I get it.
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I've posted a question  that I have a 32bits windows 7 on a dual boot machine with ubuntu 10.04 upgraded to 11.04. From the responses I had from the questions, I decided to reinstall the windows 7 but this time a 64bits version.  I've install the grub on the first section of the HDD on which ubuntu is install, meaning the 2nd Drive.  I still want guidance before I proceed.  What would you suggest me as best way to achieve that without disturbing the boot loading.  thank you for reading this.
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I did a fresh installation of Ubuntu 12.04 on all my computers yesterday and one of them just doesn't seem to like 12.04. Let's start with the symptoms:   I initially tried installing through a USB flash with the desktop amd64 version. Since it had worked on all other (5) computers, I believe the USB flash drive was ok. However the computer seemed to be stuck after the Ubuntu GUI came up (bar on the top, pinkish background) but before the screen prompting to Try or Install. When the screen came up, the mouse was moving exceptionally slowly, i.e. it responded 2-3 seconds after I had moved it. After a few minutes, I could move the mouse with normal speed, but could not click anything. The Try/Install window never came up. The same thing had happened a few days ago when I had tried to install Ubuntu 12.04 Beta 2 on the same computer, but when the Try/Install screen kept failing to come up, I gave up.  I assumed it was a problem with the desktop installer, so I tried the alternative installer, which worked fine. But then, the same (or possibly a similar) problem appears on the login screen: the mouse moves very slowly in the first few minutes, then it moves normally, I cannot click anything (for example the buttons on the top right), and I cannot type in my password to login or select the guest session.    So I am stuck at the login screen. I did not encounter any problems on my other computers, so here are some specs of this one:   CPU: Intel i7 980x extreme edition Motherboard: Asus Rampage III extreme RAM: 6GB GPUs: 2x NVidia GTX 580 in SLI HDD: Western digital 1TB green power (20GB for root (/), 6GB for swap, all the rest for /home)   I should also note that this PC ran 11.10 flawlessly until yesterday, when I attempted to install 12.04. I tried installing 11.10 after I failed with 12.04 and it worked again, so its definitely something related to 12.04.   Unfortunately, due to the nature of the problem, I don't know how to provide any logs, but if there is some way let me know.
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I have a Windows 8 system and was about to install Ubuntu 14.04 in dual boot mode, when I heard about Windows 10 releasing. Now that the Windows 10 has rolled out, I would like to know whether doing the same steps as for Windows 8 would install it. I would wait until somebody else has tried it out and posted it on the internet, but I'm somewhat out of time to wait. Will it be risky trying it out so soon, or does anyone know about what would work?
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Not a problem, but have been seeing questions recently of people not being offered upgrade from 18.04 to 20.04.  I thought these upgrades were offered back in June.  I upgraded to 20.04 from 19.10 and this was offered back in May.  Imagine that different versions paths have different schedules, but google does not help explaining(that I found).  Does someone know the schedules?
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I'm having a lot of issues dual booting Windows 10 and Ubuntu 14.04. I'd like to not do anything too crazy if possible.  I need to install Windows 10, when I already have Ubuntu 14.04 installed. My Laptop is a Dell.  OK, here's what I need help with:   Downloading everything I need Making my live USB's Split partitions Installing Windows 10 Repairing Grub Fixing the UEFI to boot Grub
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I wonder if someone can help me? I am fairly new to trying to actually understand and use computers myself rather than just buying whatever Windows/Mac wants me to! You will get a giggle from my flawed attempts anyway :-)  I would like to start using Ubuntu on my PC, just got a new harddrive and did have a borrowed windows 7 disk as was planning to temporarily install it so i could get ubuntu. However I didn't have high enough spec hardware for win 7 (I think it is due to only 1gb ram, i do have 64 bit technology and a 1tb harddrive). I am quite happy to install 32 bit ubuntu and hear it is easier the use than 64 anyway.  So I have one other rubbish mini laptop (windows xp) which i am trying to use to get ubuntu onto a usb (laptop has no cd drive) so i can install it on the pc. First tried just downloading ubuntu 13.04 desktop onto a usb and trying to boot the pc from it which gave the message 'no operating system'. Then I tried this to create a bootable usb which sounded promising:  . However then it starting asking for my saucy desktop iso in order to install it onto the usb stick, can't really manage to find out what a saucy desktopp iso is, maybe a mirror image of an operating system, no idea why i would need that.  So in short, I'm lost. All I can think of is getting windows xp somewhere so i can get my pc to work and install ubuntu from the internet on that, or going to a friends house in the hope that creating a bootable cd is easier than creating a usb.  Sorry for my general ineptness and hope someone can help!