Installing Hardy into a 'wasted' partition

[Dotan Cohen]

On 4 February 2010 08:48, john d. herron <paradox.herron at bluewin.ch> wrote:
> Hi, all.
> I'm quite confused and need some really elementary advice.
> I'd like to install Hardy (AFAIK it's the last kde 3.x distro) into a
> partition that still contains bits and pieces of a wasted Dapper version.
> This ext3 partition holds 12 GB.
>

You can install KDE 3 on Karmic:
http://apt.pearsoncomputing.net/

> Three questions:
> 1. Do I need to manually empty the Dapper partition first, or would
> reformatting it take care of that?

Hardy will format the partition.


> 2. I'd like to have all of Hardy in this one partition, with swap in a
> separate one.

That is how I do it too. Just make sure that you shutdown (not
hibernate/sleep) when you boot into different partitions which share
swap space.


>     The install CD offers a number of choices for mount points. What would
> be the most reasonable or logical choice?

Manual.


> 3. At some point in the install procedure the CD prompts for a 'computer
> name'. Is it essential ?

No, unless you are replacing an existing machine on an existing
network, that other machines on the network need to access. That is
"no" for most home installations.


By the way, I would like to know what features KDE 4 is missing for
you. I will help file the bug reports and feature requests, so please
be specific. Thanks.

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