Peter (and all other replies) Thanks for the info. I'm now going to copy my /home partition to the new HD. Then upgrade to 8.10 via synaptics, once that is done I'll possibly loose the wireless as I could not get it to work off the 'live' DVD. (The 9.04 Live DVD worked great, even wireless worked better hence upgrading). When that's done I'll try upgrading again via synaptics. If all goes well I should not need to use the HD copy of /home. Just hope I don't loose the wireless on the way! Will update at the meeting on Wednesday.
Many thanks for all the replies Clive Peter Merchant wrote: > On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 17:12 +0100, Simon P Smith wrote: >> Roundcube seemed to have killed my previous ;-( >> >> C A Wills wrote: >>> Question 1: Is it better to format the full 250Gb as 1 partition FAT32 >>> on my Linux machine or on my wife's XP? >>> Somewhere I think I read that Linux is better as it allows larger >>> 'segments' which is better for saving more files (and XP caps the size); >>> can anyone confirm please? >>> >> Why not format it with NTFS for the drive and use ntfs-3g on ubuntu to >> read it. This works fine for >> me on dual boot machines and also with external disks. Both read & >> write seem to be stable >> and secure now. >>> Question 2: I'd like to upgrade to Ubuntu 9.04 (LXF DVD120) from 8.04, >>> can I just 'replace' the OS on it's root partition and still retain the >>> separate /Home partition. i.e. replace 8.04 with 9.04 on / leaving both >>> /home and /swap as is? >>> >> You do not need to replace anything but can do a release upgrade. Open >> synaptic package manager >> set the option to allow version upgrades then let it do its thing. It >> was successful for me on a laptop here. >> The only thing to watch for is if you have compiled/installed your own >> software outside of apt/deb you may >> have to re-compile it for the new libraries and one or two config files >> may get overwritten (it will ask you). >> >> Si >> >>> > Clive, My machine is dual boot XP and Kubuntu and the XP side is NTFS, > which I can read. I also upgraded from 8.04--> 8.10 --> 9.04. The second > upgrade was easier than the first. The wireless was a glitch, in that > 9.04 handles it differently from 8.10 and I had to remove the 8.10 > configurations to let the 9.04 configuration work. > > It now has a degree of security on my other disk partitions in that I > have to enter a password to access them. - Only in Linux- XP cannot read > the 'linux' partitions. > > Peter > > -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, 2009-06-03 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
