On Wed, 2012-07-04 at 07:11 +0530, Mohan Sundaram wrote: > On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 12:43 AM, Vignesh Nandha Kumar > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Installing /home in a different partition than the root is helpful > to some > > extent. > > This worked well for me too. In addition, I made sure that apps that > install are also in a non-system partition so that reinstall keeps > these apps safe and the need to re-install is less. Inspite of this, > to keep compatibility as OS changes, I still have to install a few > core apps like mail client, monitoring utilities.
my reinstallation went well - did not lose any data or valuable information. One hiccup - firefox sync did not work as I had omitted to pair my old installation so did not have the key to open with my new install. But I just copied my old .mozilla directory to the new install and got all my passwords and bookmarks. So now I am on Fedora 17 - as usual everything worked out of the box except mobile broadband which has never worked since fedora 12. I have decided to give up on that and make my laptop dual boot - and I am going to try this out: http://www.extremetech.com/computing/104581-linux-mint-the-new-ubuntu -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
