downgrade from 10.04 to 8.10 or 9.04 to be able to print

[ubuntom]

Hi,

I have 10.04 LTS installed with Kernel 2.6.32-25-generic-pae Gnome 2.30.2. I am not able to make my Epson ALCX11n working in a network. It worked in 8.10 and in 9.04, so I want to make a downgrade. Is this possible? With all the programs? Will this work with Grub?
I would like to know how, to be able to print again!

Tom

[mörgæs]

One can not downgrade. It is only possible to make a clean install.

Be aware that 8.10 is unsupported and 9.04 will soon be, too. Rather take a look at 10.10, 9.10 or 8.04.

[ubuntom]

Thank you Mörgaes,

Specially for the idea to run different versions at the same time! Is it possible to look in the documents of 10.04 when I am in 8.04 or 9.10? That would make the printing-job very easy!

Tom

[mörgæs]

You can have several Ubuntus on the same hard drive, but only one can be active and running. A document on the hard drive can be accessed from the running Ubuntu regardless of the release number.

[ubuntom]

So I just make an 8.04 cd, start the comp with it and install it beside the 10.04? If thats all, its a very good plan.

Tom.

[mörgæs]

That is all. Just give 8.04 a spin as a live boot before installing to verify that everything works on your hardware.

[CharlesA]

Also note: Whenever messing with partitions (which you are doing if you installed side-by-side), always have a good backup before doing anything.

[ubuntom]

Thanks to you both!

This thread is solved; I will make a backup with simple backup and make a new partition with 8.04 just to use the printer.

One question left: there are no problems with grub2? 8.04 was not made with grub2, was it? Possibly I see ghosts where there aren't any, but just to be certain.

Tom

[mörgæs]

Grub2 can handle new and old Ubuntus, Windows and more. There should not be any problems here.

[mörgæs]

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