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Removing ubuntu 7.04

Asked by siddu

Hi,
I wanted to try ubuntu and had installed 7.04 (feisty) as I did not have 9.10 then, Now I have 9.10 and want to install it.

I burned the cd with 9.10 and restarted the laptop--nothing happened (Entered boot menu and selected cd/dvd rom, but still nothing happened and ubuntu 7.04 started as usual)

 My question is how do I remove 7.04 and install 9.10?
(P.s- I know It's not wise to upgrade so I want to remove the whole thing and put 9.10)

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Steve Sheldon (stephen-sheldon) said : 		#1

Get a Ubuntu or Kubuntu 9.10 live CD and when you get to partitioning options in the installation select to use all of disk and the old verion will be completely overwritten. Make sure though you backup any important data *before* doing this..

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Ryan Dwyer (ryandwyer) said : 		#2

I recommend you md5sum the .iso file to make sure it's not corrupt. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM

I don't see how this is related to disk partitioning, by the way.

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siddu (siddu-cbz) said : 		#3

Thanks steve,
I have a alternate CD not live, and I wont be able to download live CD again.
I'm not getting the installation option at all.
The system starts as if the CD is not there in the CD drive at all.
As for Data,I dont have anything of importance.

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siddu (siddu-cbz) said : 		#4

Thanks Ryan , will do and get back.

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siddu (siddu-cbz) said : 		#5

Please bear with me guys.
Tried to MD5SUM the cd. couldn't
My 7.04 doesn't have in-built MD5SUM and I couldn't find MD5SUM for 7.04 in the link posted by Ryan.
Is there any way I can just remove the whole thing (kind of format button in windows) and install the CD I have burnt?

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Steve Sheldon (stephen-sheldon) said : 		#6

If your machine is starting as if the CD is not there - check your CD drive is set as a bootable device in your CMOS settings.. if it is not, then your machine will always skip the CD on boot as if it is not there.. hope this helps.. :-) The only difference between alternate and live is one is graphical install, and the other textual.. either should boot..

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