Jump into Jammy Kubuntu 22.04 LTS

[NoWorries]

When you tried to install 22.04, did you use the same approach that you used to successfully install 21.10?

[TWPonKubuntu]

Thanks NoWorries. No harm was done to my system. I reinstalled 20.04.3 and it runs fine. I then installed 21.10 over the 20.04.3. All done using the "manual" partitioning process, to preserve my /home data. All is good, even if 21.10 is a short term release and I do expect to move to 22.04 when it is formally released. I hope any (well, most) glitches have been worked out by that time. I do keep a backup on an external drive, so the risk was as minimal as I could make it. I only run Linux on my computers, all of them. No other OSs are involved.

[NoWorries]

I just hope that the disk you were using has not been made useless or that any other systems that were on it are still usable.

When I did my install, it was on my "Sacrificial Laptop" which already had 21.10 on it. So I did a "Manual" partitioning and I did not adjust any of the partitions. I just defined my /root and /home partitions as well as the efi.

I am not sure what other systems you have on the disk that you were using. When I have struck such problems in the past, I just get an iso for a previous system and install that. I then install the new system by using the "manual" approach.

[TWPonKubuntu]

I pulled a daily ISO for Jammy Jelly (22.04) but was unsuccessful in getting a functioning install. Too many points of trouble to list here and some of them might have arisen from my fumble fingers. I'll wait a little longer before testing again.

One thing I did note was that the installer, when used to adjust the partitioning of the hard drive, wants to put a a full megabyte empty "buffer" between each partition. A million here and a million there, pretty soon we're talking about a big waste of disk space.

When partitioning for the EFI (ESP), a message pops up stating the EFI needs a partition of a minimum of 35MB, BUT you better allocate MORE than 35MB because of those 1MB "buffer" spaces which appear to be automatically taken from your initial allocation. I had to use 37MB to get it to work (kinda, sorta).

[rant] No visible or stated reason for the 1MB "buffer" partitions. It appears to be pure wasted space. I could be wrong and there might be an actual use for those "tiny" buffers, but every little bit counts... [/rant]

FYI

[NoWorries]

I have been eagerly awaiting the first iso download for 22.04. I saw one schedule which had the first iso download on the 21^st October which never happened as that was only 1 week after the release of 21.01. In a way it was not surprising as following the 21.10 superb development cycle, every effort would be made by the developers to follow with an equally stable development.

I am very pleased to let you know that I have now install Jammy from: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/daily-live/current/ . It is once again at a very reliable starting point for those who want to follow the development of this next LTS.

I am looking forward to a very eventful development period by the expert and competent developers for this new distribution.

Edit:

When I did my installation, it was on my "Sacrificial Laptop", ie a 9 year old ASUS R501VM N56VM, which had Kubuntu 21.10 installed.

I found that the first release of Jammy was now available after I returned from a BBQ with friends. So I quickly made the post above to let everybody know it was now available for download and installation.

Just for the record, the starting Information Center with my Pre-released plasma ppa and updates is as shown below.