[ubuntu-za] jaunty install

[Hilton Gibson]

David Robert Lewis wrote:
> Hilton Gibson wrote:
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>> David Robert Lewis wrote:
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>>> Lee Sharp wrote:
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>>>> David Robert Lewis wrote:
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>>>>> Any advice about backwards compatibility with Hardy programmes? If 
>>>>> I upgrade how much of my system will be lost? How to go about 
>>>>> upgrading from Hardy? Do  I have to upgrade to Ibex first? Reason I 
>>>>> am even considering it, is my pulseaudio got kludged the other 
>>>>> night after I tried to install PSX emulator and was frittering 
>>>>> around with it and now its totally borked. No sound. Hoping I can 
>>>>> either undo the damage or find an upgrade path.
>>>>>     
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>>>> Yes, you have to go to Ibex and then Jaunty, and can not skip.
>>>>
>>>> As to programs, I know ogle is missing from the Jaunty repos...  It 
>>>> is the only player I have that plays from a hard drive rip with full 
>>>> menu support.
>>>>
>>>>             Lee
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>>> Are you saying that I would have to re-install directly from the 
>>> Repos, each individual programme? Is the system intelligent enough to 
>>> figure out what needs to change and what can stay the same?
>>>       
>> Hi
>>
>> Check out: http://www.ubuntu.sun.ac.za/wiki/index.php/ReInstall for 
>> some tips.
>>
>>
>>  Hoping for some
>>     
>>> intelligence especially with low-bandwidth. Never done this so its a 
>>> great mystery.
>>>
>>> D
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> Sorry Hilton, any instruction which begins with: "Step One. Set up a 
> separate home partition"  is a recipe for disaster. Having completely 
> bombed out recently because of a partition failure I know what it is 
> like to spend hours recovering data. In fact I am in the process of 
> recovering data from a brand new 500GB second hard-drive that I 
> formatted NTFS hoping this would be safe, and now turns out there are 
> bad sectors and I will probably have to return it. So no, the whole 
> partition idea is straight out of the arc.  Step One. Start a new VM. 
> There is hope in virtualisation.
Hi.
I wish Ubuntu would default with a /home partition.
I can dream ;-)
> -D
>
> PS Hi Raol, yes I do worry about the ability of small developers to keep 
> up with the pace of change. It's no biggy missing an app that is just a 
> curiosity, but if it performs a function for which you get paid, well, 
> you're like stuffed. Then there projects which haven't managed to get 
> out of the stable because there are no developers on the Ubuntu-side 
> worrying about Cinelerra for instance. I wish the MOTU himself Mark 
> Shuttleworth was more concerned with interoperability and platform 
> stability than boot times. It is an indictment on Ubuntu that there is 
> still no system sound equaliser. I can't pop out a basic panel that sees 
> to treble and that kind of thing, so yes, ogle worries me.
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