[ubuntu-za] jaunty install

[David Robert Lewis]

Hilton Gibson wrote:
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>>>> Lee Sharp 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.
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>>>>> 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.
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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?
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>>> Hi
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>>> Check out: http://www.ubuntu.sun.ac.za/wiki/index.php/ReInstall for 
>>> some tips.
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>>>  Hoping for some
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>>>> intelligence especially with low-bandwidth. Never done this so its a 
>>>> great mystery.
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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.
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> Hi.
> I wish Ubuntu would default with a /home partition.
> I can dream ;-)
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>> -D
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>> 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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/home as standard in a separate partition would be nice. not having to 
worry about re-installing ever again and having your upgrade paths all 
worked out by a supercomputer, that would be even better. Karmic Koala 
seems to be heading towards the Cloud, and maybe we'll never have to 
worry about data backups ever again. What I want is a computer that is a 
a member of the family like a pet dog. Capable of following you around 
on the net and dissassembling itself and re-assembling as the hardware 
moves around, without ever worrying about bandwidth or data loss. If we 
all get fibre, we'll have a ball of a time. ;)