[ubuntu-za] Ubuntu 10.04

[Hilton Gibson]

On 20 April 2010 13:31, David Rubin <drubin at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Bill Cairns <cairnsww at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Andy Rabagliati <andyr at wizzy.com>
> wrote:
> >> On Tue, 20 Apr 2010, Bill Cairns wrote:
> >> You might easily get 200M updates in the first month.
> >>
> >> But can you resist ?
> >
> > Well .... Let's see how much band width I have left come the end of the
> month!
> >
> >>
> >> Even though you are going LTS -> LTS, I would suggest backing up
> >> /home and /etc and any other things you might miss, and doing
> >> a fresh install of 10.04.
> >>
> >> Cheers,  Andy!
> >
> > Yes - I was planning on going that way and on installing /home in a
> > separate partition (if I can figure out how to do that). Can anyone
> > suggest a REALL:Y good tutorial aimed at idiots?
> >
> > What would I need to save in /etc if I am going to re-install all my
> > applications? Wouldn't there be a lot of stuff in /usr/share too?
>
> http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/separatehome
>
> That whole website is aimed and new users and contains very nice and
> very detailed tutorials with  screen shots.
>
Here is some more info:
http://www.ubuntu.sun.ac.za/wiki/index.php/HomePartition
 <http://www.ubuntu.sun.ac.za/wiki/index.php/HomePartition>
Cheers

hg

>
> Cheers
>
> David
>
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