Is there a way to downgrade to Ubuntu 11.10?

**wilee-nilee** · May 17th, 2012

Originally Posted by TheGuyWithTheFace

I disagree. There's nothing stopping you from just copying your files and programs to your separate hdd and doing a clean reinstall on your original disk.

That is not a downgrade, but a clean install.

Thread tittle: Is there a way to downgrade to Ubuntu 11.10?

**TheGuyWithTheFace** · May 17th, 2012

Perhaps I misunderstand, but I think by "downgrade" he means going from version 12.04 to 11.10. Perhaps that involves having to do a clean install?

Or... I could be dead wrong.

Regardless, it seems a clean install is the only choice, so it really doesn't matter.

**johnboy601** · May 18th, 2012

All I meant by "downgrading" was just going back to Ubuntu 11.10, not like upgrading by clicking a button and it working. I kinda expected it to make me format everything but I just don't want to loose anything. Good thing I have an extra HDD.

**Mark Phelps** · May 18th, 2012

Reinstalling is not "Downgrading". Downgrading requires doing something like a roll-back -- which is not available in Ubuntu. We should not be telling folks they can "downgrade" when they can not. That kind of misinformation only leads to confusion and frustration.

**TheGuyWithTheFace** · May 19th, 2012

Ok, my bad.

**johnboy601** · May 19th, 2012

So what I have decided to do is this:
Mirror my main HDD.
Format my main HDD after the mirroring is done.
Boot off my flash drive and install a completely clean version of Ubuntu 12.04.
(I used the command dd to mirror the drive)
I really hope this will work. Also, after entering the dd command (everything is correct) and after entering my password, it just has a flashing cursor. Does this mean it's loading or should I close the terminal?

**2F4U** · May 19th, 2012

The dd command doesn't have a progress bar or something like this. The cursor just sits there until the command is finished. This may take some time, depending on how much data there is to be copied. If you close the terminal you terminate the process.

**johnboy601** · May 19th, 2012

Originally Posted by 2F4U

The dd command doesn't have a progress bar or something like this. The cursor just sits there until the command is finished. This may take some time, depending on how much data there is to be copied. If you close the terminal you terminate the process.

Yeah, I found that out. Now the problem is this error:
dd: writing to `/dev/sdb1': No space left on device
488392705+0 records in
488392704+0 records out
250057064448 bytes (250 GB) copied, 14230.2 s, 17.6 MB/s

Does this mean nothing got copied to the drive? I have less then 50GB of files on my 320GB hard drive so I figured it would copy to my 250GB drive. Also, using the disk utility, I can't mount the drive any more.