<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><title></title><head><meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><style type="text/css"> html, body {overflow-x: visible; } html { width:100%; height:100%;margin:0px; padding:0px; overflow-y: auto; overflow-x: auto; }body { font-size: 100.01%; font-family : Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color:transparent; overflow:show; background-image:none; margin:0px; padding:5px; }p { margin:0px; padding:0px; } body { font-size: 12px; font-family : Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: #FFFFFF; } p { margin: 0; padding: 0; } blockquote { padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; } blockquote.quote { border-left: 1px solid #CCC; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; } </style></head><body id="bodyElement" style=""> <blockquote class="quote" style="font-size: 12px;" face="Verdana" type="cite"> I upgraded from 8.04 to 9.04 using the alternate CDROM method and the system now kernel panics. </blockquote> Firstly, apologise for html message, using browser not on my computer. Mark, generally, it is problematic to skip a version when upgrading except for LTS to LTS versions. I just noticed Nils has replied to you, but it is useful to keep this in mind too. On another subject, Mark, I recall you mentioned you're using openoffice for pdf. Try installing this package "openoffice.org-pdfimport". I think you will find this useful. Also, if anyone using email provider gmx.com (not gmx.de or gmx.net) can help me send plain text using web-based browser, will appreciate it. I couldn't yet find a way to do that with this email provider and is troublesome if I am not on my computer. (where I can use thunderbird or kmail to send plain text) Regards,Goh Lip <div id="editor_signature"></div></body></html>