Preinstall Procedure - Moving to 11.04?

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 4:51 AM, Amichai Rotman <amichai at iglu.org.il> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I have a Desktop and an Asus netbook, both running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
>
> I always sticked to the LTS versions, because I like the stability. I was
> looking at Ubuntu's web site and followed this list and I am trying to
> decide if I should move to 111.04 or wait for the next LTS...
>
> Now, before you all jump at me - this is not my main question. I know there
> isn't a straight answer for this question. There are as many opinions out
> there as there are people subscribed to this list....
>
>
> I played around too much with the 10.04 and I have to re-install. I plan to
> try the new release on my netbook as a live "cd" (via USB) but I have a few
> questions before re-installing (be it 10.04 or 11.04):
>
> 1. I have an encrypted /home partition - how do I gain access to it after
> re-installing?
> 2. I'd like to encrypt another partition  the same way. How?
> 3. I'd like to create a list of all what is installed now, go over it,
> remove what I don't want and use what's left to install after the initial
> vanilla installation.
>
> What's the simplest way?
>

dpkg --get-selections


> Is it possible to create a script to do it?
>
> why bother?  The above is simple enough.  Of course, you may want to script
some of your manipulations of the list you get.


> Thanks!
>
> Amichai.
>
> Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
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