if you have an external drive or a pen drive, you can backup /boot and / using dd (using a live cd possibly)
On 5 September 2012 11:46, Sagar Belure <sagar.bel...@gmail.com> wrote: > I use 3 partition structure: > /boot - 100MB > / - 15GB > /home - rest > > So I never care about the backup, but worried about OS. > > Thanks, > Sagar Belure > > > > > On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Hiemanshu Sharma <hieman...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> You can also try do-release-upgrade, but be sure to backup before you do >> anything. >> >> -H >> >> >> On 5 September 2012 11:35, Sagar Belure <sagar.bel...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi Manish, >>> >>> Ah well. I wanted to know, but sadly, 12.04 is not showing *anything* at >>> all when I tried USB booting. >>> I have Dell Optiplex 990 desktop system. >>> It did in fact live booted and almost everything was operating expect >>> ethernet drivers(which I had to install separately in 10.04.3 too). >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Sagar Belure >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Manish Chakravarty < >>> manishch...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Sagar, >>>> >>>> Would it be possible for you to upgrade to 12.04? >>>> This issue is apparently fixed now ( or so a quick Google search tells >>>> me) >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Manish >>>> >>>> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Sagar Belure >>>> <sagar.bel...@gmail.com>wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 10:45 PM, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) < >>>>> r...@linux-delhi.org> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> You need to provide the card's PCI id: >>>>>> >>>>>> lspci -s 01:00.0 -n >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> $ lspci -s 01:00.0 -n >>>>> 01:00.0 0300: 1002:6779 >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> From what I can make out, the card is now supported by the latest >>>>>> xserver-xorg-video-ati. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> So shall I $ sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-ati ? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks, >>>>> Sagar Belure >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Again, from what is visible on the 'net, Ubuntu >>>>>> 11.x supports it out of the box. >>>>>> >>>>>> Regards, >>>>>> >>>>>> -- Raj >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Raj Mathur || r...@kandalaya.org || GPG: >>>>>> http://otheronepercent.blogspot.com || http://kandalaya.org || CC68 >>>>>> It is the mind that moves || http://schizoid.in || D17F >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>> Groups "ILUG Bengaluru" group. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to ilug-bengaluru@googlegroups.com. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>> ilug-bengaluru+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-bengaluru?hl=en. >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Best, >>>> Manish Chakravarty >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "ILUG Bengaluru" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to ilug-bengaluru@googlegroups.com. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> ilug-bengaluru+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-bengaluru?hl=en. >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "ILUG Bengaluru" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to ilug-bengaluru@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> ilug-bengaluru+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-bengaluru?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "ILUG Bengaluru" group. >> To post to this group, send email to ilug-bengaluru@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> ilug-bengaluru+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-bengaluru?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "ILUG Bengaluru" group. > To post to this group, send email to ilug-bengaluru@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > ilug-bengaluru+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-bengaluru?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ILUG Bengaluru" group. To post to this group, send email to ilug-bengaluru@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to ilug-bengaluru+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-bengaluru?hl=en.
