no network connection to install from usb

[vinnywright]

I tried this, but was informed there was no upgrade. If I remember right, you could only upgrade to 12.04 from 11.10, not from 11.04. Thanks anyway.

yes ,,,,BUT you could "sudo do-release-upgrade" from 11.04 to 11.10 then fully update 11.10 and then "sudo do-release-upgrade" to 12.04 ,,,,,that’s how I got hear

now on a new note ,if you are unsure of what's in your partitions and who is controlling grub you may have more problems

like installing to the rong partition and wiping windows ,,,,installing over the installation controlling grub and failing to reinstall it to the right location !!

if you could post the output of

sudo parted -l

we may get a better idea of whats in what partition.

VINNY

[oldgeek]

I tried this, but was informed there was no upgrade. If I remember right, you could only upgrade to 12.04 from 11.10, not from 11.04. Thanks anyway.

[oldgeek]

I have downloaded the 12.04.1 update and will try running it without internet, as you suggested. Which brings me to my second problem: I currently have 3 operating systems on 3 different partitions: Windows 7, Kubuntu 11.04 and Ubuntu 11.04. What I want to do is copy 12.04 directly onto my 11.04 partition, thereby erasing the latter and installing the former. My partition table looks like this:
/dev/sda1 0% (104.9 MB) Bootloader?
/dev/sda2 51.9% (259.6 GB) Presumably Windows 7
/dev/sda5 24% (120.3 GB) Presumably Kubuntu
/dev/sda7 22.3% (111.6 GB) Presumably Ubuntu
/dev/sda8 0.9% (4.3 GB) I have no idea what this is.

I assume I would have to do this through Manual but am not sure what steps I have to take. Any suggestions? Kubuntu is my min operating system so I want it to work right.
On the other hand, I'm a bit worried about my installation usb not being able to read that my computer is connected to internet. Recently my Lenovo netbook, which also runs on Kubuntu 11.04, stopped connecting to wireless, but only on Kubuntu, not on Windows 7. Is there another problem here?

[whatthefunk]

Ive always had the same problem...my internet connection is fiesty. What I do is just skip connecting to the internet during install and configure it afterward. If you cant do this with the normal Live CD, download the alternate install CD image.
http://www.kubuntu.org/getkubuntu/download

[SteveRiley]

If your 11.04 installation is working fine, you can simply upgrade that one, and avoid a complete reinstall.

sudo do-release-upgrade

[oldgeek]

I have been trying to install 12.04 LTS on my desktop, but every time I press install and choose English, the next panel says I'm not connected to internet. I KNOW I'm connected to internet, because it works with Rekong on the live image, but still won't acknowledge the connection when I try to install from the Live usb. I got the same results when I tried to install Ubuntu 12.04. This is a wired connection, by the way. Any ideas? Or should I just wait until 12.10 comes out and try that? I don't particularly like frequent clean installations and so Long Term Service seems right for me.
One other thing: once I get the connectivity problem solved, will I be able to install over my Kubuntu 11.04 partition, which is what I'm using now? If so, how would I do this?