return to Kubuntu 8.10

[NoOp]

On 06/04/2009 02:58 AM, Stephen wrote:
> Dear All
> 
> I  have recently upgraded Kubuntu 8.10 to 9.04.  I now regret this as
> many things are not working as before.
> 
> My audio CD's will not play in Amarok; my favourite package manager 
> Synaptic was removed; K3B will not copy a music CD; my menu command to 
> remount my XP partition remounts the partition but as read only; 
> Konqueror has lost many of its configurable options such as having a 
> limited "View Mode" of only Icons, Details Columns.  I like Dolphin even 
> less.
> 
> While I had 8.10 I changed graphics cards to an NVIDIA with 256MB RAM on 
> board, but never got it to work properly.  For these reasons I made the 
> transition to 9.04 which did not improve the NVIDIA situation.  When I 
> select the NVIDA driver downloaded from the NVIDIA website and install 
> it X crashes and I have to reboot and chose the recovery route where I 
> then fix X and boot into a gui again, but not using the NVIADA 
> proprietorial driver.
> 
> So much is now not behaving in 9.04, that I want to go back to 8.10.  I 
> downloaded an image, burned to CD and tried to boot to 8.10 live.
> However, it did not boot into a gui.  I boot into a screen with a yellow
> lower half and a blue upper part.  The mouse travels across the blue but
> not the yellow.  I am forced to remove the power and take the CD out and
> reboot normally into my menu options of XP or 9.04.
> 
> I tried Mandriva live CD and that just booted to a black screen and hung
> there doing nothing.  I have tried other live CD's from various editions 
> of Linux Format but nothing works (touchwood - that was a joke for the 
> British readers).
> 
> The situation is now so silly I do not know what to do.  I do not like
> the lost functionality in 9.04.  I do like the new KDE but not at the
> expense of so many other things going wrong.
> 
> Is there something about the stability of .04 and .10 that I do not 
> know.  Is one an improvement on the other?
> 
> How do I reinstall Kubuntu 8.10 over 9.04?
> 
> Any help appreciated.  Thanks and wait to hear

Don't know about kubuntu, but have a look at my recent posts regarding
reinstalling & keeping home from hardy to jaunty and back:

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user/184420
[be sure to click the 'continue reading' on the last two posts.

*WARNING* Backup *first* & proceed at your own risk! The methods worked
for me, but they may not work for you. Also note that I didn't test
intrepid-jaunty/jaunty-intrepid, but should work just the same as
hardy-jaunty/jaunty-hardy, *and* note that they were done using gnome
(ubuntu) vs kde (kubuntu).