Andrew Packer wrote:
Thanks to all who offered advice about our choice of a new PC and new
distro. The AMD64-3000+ powered beast is up and running Ubuntu. Very
slick installation except for the challenge of getting the nvidia driver
up and then getting her ancient ViewSonic 17G recognised as capable of
more than 60 Hz at 1024 x 768. (Challenge overcome, and I swear I'm
going to learn vi BEFORE the next time I stuff up an X11 configuration
file and then can't get to gedit to repair it!)
OpenOffice boots up in what seems like less than a second, and she-who-must-be-obeyed is impressed. The only catch was that all her documents, which I had dutifully transferred across the network and burnt to CD-RW via xcdroast, were owned by "500" with no read permissions for her. I had to copy them to her HD as root and then repermission each subdirectory and file. Is that standard operating procedure when your backup is a CD-RW?
=====Andrew
.. I hope <ctrl>-<alt>-f1 still worked? <asbestos suit on> Then all you have to learn is to use a decent editor, like vi (: </asbestos suit on>
There's a M$ like editor... called jed iirc. If ubuntu suports apt, like I think I heard it did, then apr-get install jed will make your life much easier.
For the files... you could have cheated, and copied your old /etc/passwd and /etc/group across. Or just changed the uid ( 3rd number along ) and group ( 4th ) in /etc/passwd to the correct values, and (sort of ) similar in /etc/group. Also, chown -R <uid>:<gid> /home/swmbo would have changed it in one go. This is good, as it handles files/dirs with spaces in them, which the alternative which old g*ts like me still tend to use from the time before the -R flag ( find . | xargs chown <uid>:<gid> ) doesn't.
Cheers,
Steve
