Liam Proven wrote:
> I've just installed 8.04 on an elderly laptop (PII-450, 256MB RAM). I
> only had a vanilla GNOME LiveCD, so I've used that.
>
> I've tried installing xubuntu-desktop instead and Xfce is indeed a bit
> faster on this low-spec PC.
>
> How can I now remove GNOME?
>
> The hard disk
I've just installed 8.04 on an elderly laptop (PII-450, 256MB RAM). I
only had a vanilla GNOME LiveCD, so I've used that.
I've tried installing xubuntu-desktop instead and Xfce is indeed a bit
faster on this low-spec PC.
How can I now remove GNOME?
The hard disk is only 16G, so I don't have disk
I not gone that far with mine yet.
Even though I use Gnome version of Ubuntu, its layout is quit different. I
have noticed it can be changed to the standard view, I am going to stick
with how it comes for a while to see how it goes.
If you do upgrade to 8.10, please let me know how it goes.
2008
2008/12/23 Farran Lee :
> cheers, I've done it all now and it worked. Everythng was fine in the clean
> 8.04.1. But as soon as I upgraded to 8.10, compiz won't work again, and I
> think there's other issues I haven't discovered yet
I'm impressed it still works at all after that!
My advice would
Farran,
Farran wrote:
> I have just set up a new partition table, with 30gb at /, 15gb at
> /media/Work, 3gb at /root, 253gb at /home and 8gb swap. I am not
> formatting /home or swap, but when I get to the final step of
> installation where it tells me what it's gonna do, it says it will
> forma
On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 15:56 +, Tony Arnold wrote:
> Farran,
>
> Farran wrote:
>
> > I have just set up a new partition table, with 30gb at /, 15gb at
> > /media/Work, 3gb at /root, 253gb at /home and 8gb swap. I am not
> > formatting /home or swap, but when I get to the final step of
> > ins
On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 11:25 +, Tony Arnold wrote:
> Farran,
>
> Farran wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 14:31 +, Tony Arnold wrote:
> >> Farran,
> >>
> >> Matthew Wild wrote:
> >>
> >> >> 4 would it be best to generate an install list from synaptic so I know
> >> >> what
> >> >> I've got
Farran,
Farran wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 14:31 +, Tony Arnold wrote:
>> Farran,
>>
>> Matthew Wild wrote:
>>
>> >> 4 would it be best to generate an install list from synaptic so I know
>> >> what
>> >> I've got, and do a clean install with a larger partition? (and how would I
>> >> do t
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Alan Pope wrote:
> None of them _need_ to be separate partitions. Historically people
> used to do this so that an overfilling /var or /home would not bring
> the system to a standstill as / is unwritable. Personally I don't
> carve systems up like that at all. Yo
> cool thanks I'm going in in about 20 minutes. I never knew /var was so big
> relatively - so I'll give it a partition. Any other / that
> should have their own (apart from /home)?
None of them _need_ to be separate partitions. Historically people
used to do this so that an overfilling /var or /h
On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 14:08 +, James Hooker wrote:
> I've been quiet on the lists for a while... work, and Uni.. bla bla bla
> - hope everyone is well!
>
> I recently purchased some excellent DRM free tracks from Play.com... I
> was wondering if there had been any murmurs in the community
On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 14:31 +, Tony Arnold wrote:
> Farran,
>
> Matthew Wild wrote:
>
> >> 4 would it be best to generate an install list from synaptic so I know what
> >> I've got, and do a clean install with a larger partition? (and how would I
> >> do this through aptitude command line -
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