Installing 12.10

[George DiceGeorge]

Hurray – it seems to work.
Have removed that desktop background image,
doubled the  size of desktop icons.

I miss the box in unity (and win7) into which to type the start of commands,
but prefer the xfce menus to the unity sidebar – its a computer not a phone!

gparted was on the live disk but not in the installation.

The Helps work
good.

[george]



From: George DiceGeorge 
Sent: Monday, 04 February, 2013 22:50
To: Ubuntu Studio Users Help and Discussion 
Subject: Re: Installing 12.10

Somewhere I read about a separate data partition,
I’ve always done it in windows,
but I guess you’re right, it only brings in complications,
and a temptation to share it between different OS’s...

The more standard my installation is the easier it will be for you experts to help me with any problems...
so I’m doing a default installation...

From: Mike Holstein 
Sent: Monday, 04 February, 2013 22:27
To: Ubuntu Studio Users Help and Discussion 
Subject: Re: Installing 12.10


On Feb 4, 2013 4:02 PM, "George DiceGeorge" <dicegeorge at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm hoping to install UStudio 12.10,
> on a HP Pavilion a6250.uk
> it's 64 bit Intel Core 2 Quad CPU  Q6600 @ 2.40 GHz  says sysinfo (kentsfield)
> it has Virtualization technology
>
> I'm downloading ubuntustudio-12.10-dvd-amd64iso.
> I'm going to test it on a live DVD or USB stick first.
>
> The existing OS in Ubuntu 12.04 32bit, which has upgraded many times and seems to have faults.
>
> I want a separate Home partition,
> should I do this after it's installed,
> or during installing?
> And then copy the old Home data over?
>
> I knew a lot about CP/M and MSDOS3.2,
> but havenet enough brain left to become an expert on Linux,
> I hope it will just work.
>
> [george]

You want the seperate home before installation, not trying to create it afterward... what does a seperate home do? Or better yet, what doesn't it do?...

Seperate home partition on the same hard drive doesn't provide any backup or extra protection. *when* that hard drive fails, the data in any partition is able to be lost. /home on a seperate hard drive doesn't provide any extra protection either... just means your data is on a different drive than the os, which might be handy with a spinnng drive and an ssd.

Seperate home doesn't isolate your configuration from causing issues and "breaking" things... 

For example, right now, your user config could be the cause of all your issues. When you reinstall, and move your home data, either from or to a seperate home partition or not, you will bring the error with you.

I would troubleshoot your current 12.04 that is "broken" by creating a new user, and logging in and testing... or by removing or renaming your .config files in your home. This will isolate your configuration from the equation.

I run 12.04... its the lts. Long term support. There is no reason not to run 12.10, but 12.04 is supported for 5 years and 12.10 for 18 months, assuming that would sway your decision...

What does a seperate home partition do? It really helps one maintain one place for data and configurations for whatever benefit that might bring...

Cheers and good luck!

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