no network connection to install from usb

[oldgeek]

Thanks--I tried that and discovered that the prompt was set to normal. So it should try to update to 11.10, but instead it tells me no update can be found. So where do I go from here? This is getting interesting.

[Snowhog]

Press Alt+F2 and type: kdesudo kate /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades
Enter your password and the file will open for editing (as 'root').

Find the line: Prompt= (should be the last line in the file) and change it to read: Prompt=normal

Save and close the file.

[oldgeek]

Another way to do that is to edit /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades and change the Prompt line to:

Prompt=normal

Excuse my patent ignorance, but what do I have to type to do that?

[SteveRiley]

Another way to do that is to edit /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades and change the Prompt line to:

Prompt=normal

[vinnywright]

I tried that and this is what I got:

steve@steve-Ideapad-S10-3s:~$ sudo do-release-upgrade -d
[sudo] password for steve:
Checking for a new ubuntu release
No new release found
steve@steve-Ideapad-S10-3s:~$

A question: does it matter that the program looks for an ubuntu release when I want the kubuntu release?

no it dose not mater ......

open you package manager , muon ,synaptic , whatever you use go to settings>software sources and click the updates tab,,, at the bottom (in muon anyway) whare it says release upgrade click the drop down box and select normal releases ,,,,then close muon and try the "sudo do-release-upgrade -d" again

VINNY

[oldgeek]

I tried that and this is what I got:

steve@steve-Ideapad-S10-3s:~$ sudo do-release-upgrade -d
[sudo] password for steve:
Checking for a new ubuntu release
No new release found
steve@steve-Ideapad-S10-3s:~$

A question: does it matter that the program looks for an ubuntu release when I want the kubuntu release?

[SteveRiley]

Try

sudo do-release-upgrade -d

Note the "-d" at the end.

[oldgeek]

Thanks for the info. I would like to try the upgrade from 11.04 to 11.10. and then to 12.04, but don't know exactly how to do this. I tried typing sudo do-release-upgrade but was unable to to go further--error message said no upgrade was available. If I can't use the upgrade method I will try the method you mentioned in your last communication. So what do I type to get the upgrades? Again, I appreciate your time and effort to help me out.

[vinnywright]

I ran df -h on an Ubuntu terminal a minute ago, and got sda5 as a result. Which one is correct? And just what does the command do? I'm still a novice at this, I think.

that would be correct ,,,,df shows disk usage of the mounted file systems .........see "man df" (run in a terminal)

vinny@Vinnys-HP-G62:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 21G 12G 7.7G 61% /
udev 1.9G 4.0K 1.9G 1% /dev
tmpfs 751M 880K 750M 1% /run
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 1.9G 184K 1.9G 1% /run/shm
/dev/sda3 196G 149G 38G 80% /home
vinny@Vinnys-HP-G62:~$

hear we see /dev/sda2 is mounted at / (thats root) this is the root system Kubuntu hear , and /dev/sda3 is mounted @ /home , this is my /home/vinny DIR I keep mounted on a separate partition.
we also see that the root system or / is a 21 Gig partition that has 12 Gig's used and 7.7 Gig's available ,so, 61% used

wile you were in Kubuntu it was displaying /dev/sda7 as that is the partition that Kubuntu is installed to , so it's / (root) is /dev/sda7
wile in Ubuntu you get /dev/sda5 becose that's where Ubuntu is installed to ,,, so Ubuntu's / is sda5

OK enough with class .....on to the lesson

first if you cant make Kubuntu upgrade from 11.04 to 11.10 to 12.04 and are going to reinstall to the current partition you want to save your files to some where else as your /home is in the root partition and will be destroyed during the reinstall .

then run the Kubuntu live cd/usb and at the partitioning phase select "manual" you will get a screen showing the partitions ,,,,select /dev/sda7 (I think you also haft to click change) ,,,,use as ext4,,,mount on / and yes format it ,,,,,,,,BEFORE you leave this page at the bottom is a drop down box for where to install grub ,,,,chose /sda or MBR I think it will show as /sda though . Then continue with the installation .

VINNY

[oldgeek]

I ran df -h on an Ubuntu terminal a minute ago, and got sda5 as a result. Which one is correct? And just what does the command do? I'm still a novice at this, I think.

[oldgeek]

Presumably Kubuntu is controlling GRUB, as that's what loads if I don't do anything after turning the computer on.
Strange, but I thought Kubuntu was on sda5, as I installed it after Windows and before Ubuntu. When I tried to install 12.04, when it came to the partition step the guided choice wanted to divide sda5 into two and install 12.04 on one half of the partition. I didn't want 2 Kubuntus, so I cancelled, and here I am. Thanks for all your help, by the way.

[vinnywright]

ok so Kubuntu is sda7 and ubuntu would be sda5 .

so which one is controlling grub ,,,,or do you use the windows boot loader?

VINNY

[oldgeek]

I ran df -h on Kubuntu's Konsole and it says that / is located on sda7:

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda7 103G 35G 63G 36% /
none 2.0G 680K 2.0G 1% /dev
none 2.0G 2.7M 2.0G 1% /dev/shm
none 2.0G 92K 2.0G 1% /var/run
none 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /var/lock

[vinnywright]

looks like 1 & 2 are your windows 5&7 your linux installs and 8 & 6 both swap partitions , you should only need 1 both your linux installs would use it.
wile in one of your linux installs run

df -h

in a trminal and it will show you where / is (/dev/sda5 or6)

whitch one is controling grub now Kubuntu or Ubuntu?

VINNY

[oldgeek]

Here are the results of sudo parted -l:

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 106MB 105MB primary ntfs boot
2 106MB 260GB 260GB primary ntfs
3 260GB 500GB 240GB extended
5 260GB 380GB 120GB logical ext4
7 380GB 492GB 112GB logical ext4
8 492GB 496GB 4272MB logical linux-swap(v1)
6 496GB 500GB 4271MB logical linux-swap(v1)