On 11/19/2010 05:52 AM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> My point is that is my experience that the gnome configuration files
> (files with names like .gnome* change from version to version so the old
> home directory will not work under the new version. gnotes won't work if
> the location of the database c
On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 22:26 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 11/18/2010 08:22 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > It is my experience that the system files change from one version to the
> > next. For example the gnote database changed location between recent
> > versions so you can't easily just maintain yo
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 09:13:10AM -0700, Phil Meyer wrote:
> On 11/17/2010 04:19 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> > On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 16:13:15 -0700
> > Phil Meyer wrote:
> >
> >> We have noticed a couple times that if /boot is very full BEFORE
> >> preupgrade downloads anything, it will prompt to do a
On 11/17/2010 04:19 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 16:13:15 -0700
> Phil Meyer wrote:
>
>> We have noticed a couple times that if /boot is very full BEFORE
>> preupgrade downloads anything, it will prompt to do a network based
>> preupgrade which works well.
> Just for curiosity, why
On 11/18/2010 08:22 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> It is my experience that the system files change from one version to the
> next. For example the gnote database changed location between recent
> versions so you can't easily just maintain your home directory that way.
I don't quite get your point. It
On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 07:33 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 11/18/2010 07:19 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> > Just for curiosity, why have a separate /boot partition at all?
> > I always just make a single / partition, install everything on it
> > and never run out of space in /boot or /home because it is
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 19:30:03 -0500,
Tom Horsley wrote:
>
> But even if you want /home separate, having /boot separate always
> seems to cause nothing but trouble. If you aren't encrypting root
> or using a filesystem grub doesn't understand, I can't imagine
> any good reason to make /boot s
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 07:33:37 +0800
Ed Greshko wrote:
> So, you always do upgrades and never complete installs? What happens if
> it becomes necessary to do a complete install? Wouldn't you want to
> have a separate /home so you wouldn't have to back it up?
>
> There are certainly other reasons
On 11/18/10, Phil Meyer wrote:
> We have noticed a couple times that if /boot is very full BEFORE
> preupgrade downloads anything, it will prompt to do a network based
> preupgrade which works well.
>
> We are now planning to always slam junk into /boot before running
> preupgrade :)
>
> The netw
On 11/18/2010 07:19 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> Just for curiosity, why have a separate /boot partition at all?
> I always just make a single / partition, install everything on it
> and never run out of space in /boot or /home because it is all the
> same chunk of space.
So, you always do upgrades and
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 16:13:15 -0700
Phil Meyer wrote:
> We have noticed a couple times that if /boot is very full BEFORE
> preupgrade downloads anything, it will prompt to do a network based
> preupgrade which works well.
Just for curiosity, why have a separate /boot partition at all?
I always j
On 11/17/2010 12:40 PM, Alan J. Gagne wrote:
>> Jerry Feldman wrote:
>>> On 11/17/2010 11:36 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
Just a "in my experience" note, running an upgrade from a DVD/USB has been
far
more successful than preupgrade for me. Older installs had a small /boot
and
>>>
> Jerry Feldman wrote:
>> On 11/17/2010 11:36 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>>> Just a "in my experience" note, running an upgrade from a DVD/USB has been
>>> far
>>> more successful than preupgrade for me. Older installs had a small /boot and
>>> often don't work well due to lack of room. YMMV.
>> Whe
Jerry Feldman wrote:
> On 11/17/2010 11:36 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>> Just a "in my experience" note, running an upgrade from a DVD/USB has been
>> far
>> more successful than preupgrade for me. Older installs had a small /boot and
>> often don't work well due to lack of room. YMMV.
> When I inst
On 11/17/10, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> On 11/17/2010 11:36 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>> Just a "in my experience" note, running an upgrade from a DVD/USB has been
>> far
>> more successful than preupgrade for me. Older installs had a small /boot
>> and
>> often don't work well due to lack of room. YMM
On 11/17/2010 11:36 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Just a "in my experience" note, running an upgrade from a DVD/USB has been
> far
> more successful than preupgrade for me. Older installs had a small /boot and
> often don't work well due to lack of room. YMMV.
When I installed F13 from DVD, I speci
Jerry Feldman wrote:
> On 11/15/2010 03:29 PM, mike cloaked wrote:
>> At the weekend I was invited to attend a local linux user group
>> "installfest" since all the other people there was Ubuntu-centric. I
>> took along a Fedora f14 Gnome desktop install DVD, as well as a
>> bootable usbkey contai
On 11/15/2010 03:29 PM, mike cloaked wrote:
> At the weekend I was invited to attend a local linux user group
> "installfest" since all the other people there was Ubuntu-centric. I
> took along a Fedora f14 Gnome desktop install DVD, as well as a
> bootable usbkey containing the DVD iso as an inst
At the weekend I was invited to attend a local linux user group
"installfest" since all the other people there was Ubuntu-centric. I
took along a Fedora f14 Gnome desktop install DVD, as well as a
bootable usbkey containing the DVD iso as an install medium in case of
need (written with livecd-iso-
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