2009/1/18 William Anderson :
> Neil Greenwood wrote:
>> [snip]
>>
>> Have a look at http://blog.hanno-stock.de/archives/50 for a few extra
>> steps that will mark libraries and dependencies as automatically
>> installed (then they get removed when you choose to remove the package
>> you originally
Neil Greenwood wrote:
> [snip]
>
> Have a look at http://blog.hanno-stock.de/archives/50 for a few extra
> steps that will mark libraries and dependencies as automatically
> installed (then they get removed when you choose to remove the package
> you originally installed, instead of becoming cruft
2009/1/18 William Anderson :
> [snip]
> I'd suggest an easier path would be to do:
>
> dpkg --get-selections > /tmp/packages.txt
>
> Then take a copy of /tmp/packages.txt (and probably an archive of /etc
> as well to make a backup of key system settings), do whatever re-install
> steps you'd requir
Sorry, catching up with old mail :)
Matthew Wild wrote:
> [snip]
>
>> 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 - I have no gui at all now).
>
2009/1/6 Neil Greenwood :
> 2009/1/6 Liam Proven :
>> On DOS-based OSs, there is good reason to use only logicals on all but
>> the 1st drive, because it makes drive letter assignment by the OS.
>
> I guess you meant "stops drive letter assignment by the OS."?
> Otherwise you're missing something
2009/1/6 Liam Proven :
> 2009/1/6 Neil Greenwood :
>> You don't need the primary partition with Linux. You can make one
>> extended partition that fills the disk and then put all the logical
>> partitions in there for /, /home, swap, etc.
>>
>> Only Windows requires a primary partition, and it need
2009/1/6 Neil Greenwood :
> 2008/12/23 Liam Proven :
>>[snip]
>> Now, partition it thus:
>>
>> - 1 primary partition, ext3, 150GB (or whatever half the free space is) as /
>> - 1 extended partition of all the rest of the space
>> in the extended partition:
>> - 1 logical partition of 151GB (or w
2008/12/23 Liam Proven :
>[snip]
> Now, partition it thus:
>
> - 1 primary partition, ext3, 150GB (or whatever half the free space is) as /
> - 1 extended partition of all the rest of the space
> in the extended partition:
> - 1 logical partition of 151GB (or whatever the other half is) as /home
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 14:31 +, 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 -
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 - I have no gui at all now).
>
> dpkg -l > packages.txt
>
> However i
Hi,
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Farran wrote:
> hi everyone again
> sorry this is awfully complicated, but stick at it if you can be bothered I
> try to make sense of it at the end.
>
I read it, but I'll skip to the end to reply :)
> following my previous question about compiz, I realised
hi everyone again
sorry this is awfully complicated, but stick at it if you can be
bothered :D I try to make sense of it at the end.
following my previous question about compiz, I realised the issue was
with space on my / partition - every time I tried to do something, it
complained (which was whe
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