[ubuntu-us-ma] should i upgrade to jaunty?

[Daniel Hollocher]

psycocats is an OLD tutorial (for moving /home).  I actually rewrote
it, with more modern commands.  And, I restructured it so its
safer/easier.

The first step would be to repartition, which takes a really really
really long time.  Especially since you say you have allot of data.

I'm gona say that your best bet would be to carve out a 10g partition,
just as a testing partition, and not worry about /home for now.  Or, 2
8g partitions, and try running a clean install of jaunty, with the
second as your separate /home partition.  I would create an extended
partition, and throw all the new partitions in there.  Make sure to
put it at the END of your drive.  That may make things easier.

Dan

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:32 AM, kevin dreimiller
<kevin_dreimiller at yahoo.com> wrote:
> i wish i had done a /home partition for things like this and a little more
> flexibility, but i didn't know what the hell i was doing when i put ubuntu
> on.  in retrospect i took a small leap of faith by completely wiping vista.
> i just clicked 'yes' when it asked 'are you absolute certain that you want
> to reformat your entire drive?"
>
> im not quite confident enough to repartition at this point.  everyone says
> it's easy, but when i read the instructions on psychocats (i think that's
> the site) it sounds very daunting and at this point i have quite a bit of
> personal stuff ive collected that id hate to lose or garble up.  and i only
> have a 250g drive - no multiple drives for redundancy or whatever....
>
> kevin
>
> Daniel Hollocher <danielhollocher at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I personally have a /home, and two install partitions (ie, root). One
> for my regular install. One, because I've been running the alphas
> since intrepid, for one reason or another. (I actually don't like
> running the alphas. The bugs are annoying :) Plus, it allows me to
> run a clean install on my regular install, and have all my files
> intact.
>
> Next, I prefer to use configfile directives in grub's menu.lst instead
> of having a separate /boot partition. I don't know why Ubuntu/Debian
> doesn't use configfile directives in the first place...
>
> Having multiple partitions allows you to have multiple installs or
> reinstall without loosing your personal data. That's the basic point.
> The above explanation is very terse, just loaded with keywords. If
> you want to go that route, I can give further explanations. I think
> you just need to be prepared to repartition. Grub might be a problem,
> especially if you have multiple harddrive with windows dualbooting. I
> haven't really tamed grub yet.
>
> Dan
>
> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 1:02 AM, James Gray wrote:
>> It should be possible to install the codecs from within the live CD.
>> I believe the Live CD creates a tempfs to mount the system.  Any
>> additional software you install will get saved to the tempfs and not
>> to your existing install disk.  You can then verify that you get
>> reasonable frame rates etc.
>>
>> Many people report better results backing up their files and doing a
>> fresh install rather then an upgrade.  YMMV.  In any event backup your
>> system first to be on the safe side if for no other reason then to
>> have a recent backup if your disk fails before your next backup.
>>
>> This is just the way I would approach the problem.  I am sure there
>> are plenty of other opinions out there...
>>
>> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:09 PM, kevin dreimiller
>> wrote:
>>> im totally stumped on this.  i ran the live CD tonight and it seemed to
>>> worked fine, tho couldn't run video because it doesn't have the codecs.
>>> but
>>> everything else seemed good - it even detected my second monitor.
>>>
>>> my fear is that since i have an ati radeon 3100 vid card it wont work
>>> properly, namely the video.
>>>
>>> im using a toshiba satellite l305d series.  3 gigs ram, ati radeon 3100.
>>> almost no problems in intrepid except that it seems a little sluggish
>>> lately.  the live cd seemed to run faster than my intrepid install.
>>>
>>> and if i do upgrade and it doesnt work right, id like to be able to just
>>> revert back to my setup now, but i dont' know if thats even possible?
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>> kevin
>>>
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