upgrade k10.10 to k12.04 from live cd

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You don't have kppp installed which is way it fails.  Under gnome you
need to be in the dailout group for it to work.

Grub is now Grub2 and does not use menu.list any more.  You should read
up on the new config settings for it at the grub2 site.

On 08/30/2012 03:47 PM, ray burke wrote:
> Thanks for all the advise,
> as it looks like I will have to do a clean install of which I have
> already apptempted, but have
> found some issues in doing so, it is now sitting in 80gb which is what I wanted.
> the problem is with my dialup kppp when I run it it comes back with a
> window saying-
>
> "sorry plasma desktop shell"
> KDElnit could not launch 'kppp':
> could not find 'kppp' executable
>
> under gnome ppp canot open /dev/ttyso: permission denied?
> and can I use in a terminal 'dmesg' to see if the modem is connected?
>
> also how do I get grub to start as there is no /grub/menulst?
>
> ray
>
>
> On 8/30/12, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
>> ray burke wrote:
>>> I have got my hands on a live cd k12.04, and is it possible to
>>> upgrade my k10.10mm,
>> The supported upgrade path is from either 11.10 to 12.04 LTS or from
>> 10.04 LTS to 12.04 LTS. You can only jump from one release to the next
>> release or from one LTS release to the next LTS release. Therefore your
>> path would be 10.10 -> 11.04 -> 11.10 -> 12.04 LTS. But frankly, as
>> every step takes quite some time, I would install 12.04 LTS instead of
>> upgrading. However I would make sure at the partitioning step that I
>> would reuse the existing partition and NOT format it. Then the /home
>> folder should be preserved. Even though I did this successfully several
>> times already, I would still make a backup of my valuable data before
>> the install because you never know if something goes wrong. One final
>> warning: 12.04 comes with the new kmail2 which is not yet production
>> ready IMHO.
>>
>>
>> Nils
>>
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