Similar Experience/Forget Hardy

[Derek Broughton]

Brian Astill wrote:

> Later versions have introduced UUID instead of /dev/hdx for
> reasons which are  obscure.  

Oh, come on.  How obscure is it?  RTFM! (Sorry, couldn't resist that).

UUIDs are used for a very good, and very simple reason - you can't _rely_ on
partion /dev/hda3 always being on /dev/hda3.  You can rely, however, on the
partition with UUID=b66d168a-9df1-422d-aa26-96a0c0b0831b always being my
Hardy Gnome install.  If I ever reformat that partition, it will have a
different, by definition, UUID.

> In Hardy, fstab exists but editing is ignored.

Sorry, that's completely untrue.

> I installed Hardy and as it seemed to be running OK 
> edited fstab to have /home in my home partition.  Hardy ignored
> my change and refused to recognise anything other than its own
> setup.

Clearly you didn't mount it correctly.  Show us your fstab.
 
> I also notice the gradual removal of some OS features such
> as "root terminal" and the option of setting up a root terminal
> in Konsole.

You can still get one of those.
> 
> Has everyone noticed that nearly all the apps listed in (eg)
> Synaptic are 'ubuntuised' and wondered why? All in all there
> seems to me to be too much fiddling going on.

The mind boggles.  Why would we even bother with an Ubuntu distro, if we
didn't plan to change large amounts of Debian?
-- 
derek