[ubuntu-uk] getting my Jaunty working again....

[Rob Beard]

Sean Miller wrote:
> So the release date is only a matter of hours away and now, having
> been reprimanded for having a beta version and moaning it wasn't
> working, I am planning to hopefully get Jaunty working again over the
> weekend.
>
> The symptoms are that it gets to the login prompt on X and then just
> hangs entirely.  I also haven't managed to get it to boot into
> recovery mode either to look at logs etc., so I think there's
> something a bit fundamental gone wrong.
>
> Is there any way, do you think, that I could "upgrade" from an ISO
> without losing all my custom configuration, or is the best thing to
> back up the /home structure and wipe?
>
> Thoughts very gratefully accepted,
>
> Sean
>
>   
If it was me, I'd backup /home (this is why it's good idea to have /home 
on a separate partition ;-) and reinstall.  Your bookmarks etc should be 
kept then.

Rob