Question fresh install.

[Walter Kerkhofs]

Op donderdag 30 september 2010 18:55:46 schreef Georgi Kourtev:
> Dear all,
> 
> I have a production machine that was my first-ever 100% linux machine. I
> started with Kubuntu 8.04 and during the past two years I have just
> upgraded the OS and now I run with 10.04.1., KDE 4.5.1.
> 
> All is fine but due to the fact that this was my 'first-ever-machine' with
> linux (now my whole office with 7 PCs is with Kubuntu), I was using it to
> experiment everything that I wanted to try.  As I am not expert, I found
> out that after two years it started to work rather slow. For example, the
> login takes about 1,5-2 minutes, after opening Kontact, I need to wait for
> about 5-8 minutes for some disk-work that blocks everything, etc.
> 
> So I decided to do a fresh install soon after 10.10 is available with /home
> on a separate partition.  My question is what should I do to preserve all
> my work on that machine (which is my primary office production machine)? 
> I do back-ups every week.  It is obvious that I will need to copy back all
> files from my Documents, Pictures and all the rest visible directories
> under /home. Also to follow some of the instruction to migrate my
> mails/addresses/calendar entries into the new install.
> 
> What else?  Any advice that will make my life easier is appreciated.
> 
> Many thanks,
> gk

Dear Georgi,

My excuses for replying so late.
The last topic off this article will be very usefull for you:

http://popey.com/blog/2010/03/11/why-ubuntu-is-better-than-windows/

I really like to know if this is possible with the Kubuntu installer.


Greetings,

Walter Kerkhofs


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