[Malvern] Re: Malvern Digest, Vol 210, Issue 1

[Tim]

Hi Ian,

hopefully you will have a backup at least of your home directory :-)

If you were sensible when you first installed Ubuntu then you will have
put /home on a separate partition. If you did then it's very easy to
re-install Ubuntu wiping the / partition but keeping your
existing /home. If you then use the same username and UID then you'll
keep all you old user settings (if you actually want to)

Keeping /home on a separate partition makes life so much easier if you
like upgrading,swaping distros or even running multiple distros.

I've yet to try Heron beta as I tend to wait for the full releases (I
prefer things to actually work :-). It's difficult enough keeping up
with new full versions every six months anyway. You could always install
Gutsy then do a distribution upgrade when Heron comes out. As long as
you don't add too much non standard software dist-upgrades in
Debian/Ubuntu tend to work ok.

Gutsy is very good indeed and I'm running it on my new uber desktop, old
desktop (dist-upgraded from dapper) and in VMware very happily. A lot
more works out of the box than before which is great. I'll wait for
Heron to come out before I upgrade my dapper laptop as I've customised
it too heavily and it'll take far too much work to do a successful
dist-upgrade (I've learnt my lesson now ;-) 



I'll have to actually turn up to a meeting or go down the pub sometime.

Tim  


On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 12:15 +0000, malvern-request at mailman.lug.org.uk
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> Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:15:50 -0000
> From: "Ian Pascoe" <ianpascoe at btinternet.com>
> Subject: [Malvern] Help Wanted for a re-install!
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> Folks
> 
> I need some help please to re-install my Ubuntu installation onto my
> desktop.
> 
> I've managed to totally cockup some configuration somewhere so that Orca,
> Gnome's Accessability Service, is partially screwed up.  The devel team
> can't work it out, so I've suggested doing a total new install.
> 
> I'm not too sure whether to do a Gutsy install, or a Heron beta ....
> 
> Any offers gratefully received - I might even be persuaded to provide some
> refreshment too!
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Ian
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> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:12:40 +0000
> From: Phil Ironside <phil at creativespaces.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [Malvern] Help Wanted for a re-install!
> To: Malvern at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Message-ID: <20080311091240.2968bc04.phil at creativespaces.co.uk>
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> Yo Ian
>  
> > I need some help please to re-install my Ubuntu installation onto my
> > desktop.
> 
> I am not sure I should offer my services after the last incident with the hose and the nitric acid.
> Have you backed up all those unimportant, errr..important, files you may need if the install goes wrong? 
> 
> We can have a chat about it on Wednesday.
> 
>