Replying to my thread to cap where I finally got to today. On Thursday, June 03, 2010 02:19:54 pm Jeff Lasman wrote:
> The copy and paste (cut and paste) functions no longer work. Tried a > different account; it works. At some point copy/cut and past finally just started working again, but I bowed to what i consider Randall's judgment and I decided it was time to move to Lucid Lynx (or is it lazy linux <smile>). Though the upgrade in place failed (and that was probably a good thing) I was able to store my kmail and kalarm, and I rebuilt the system from metal. That gave me a lot of grief at the beginning; it's either impossible to build a software RAID-1 system from the alternative ISO, or I'm doing something very wrong (I never have a problem with it on CentOS installs. I tried setting up RAID by telling the alternative CD I wanted to manually partition. I set up partitions, and then tried to set up RAID, but whatever I did in RAID didn't work. After trying a few options I zeroed out the first third of the two 500 MB drives (dd), then tried to set them up through the Kubuntu ISO. See above. Similar problem. So then I zeroed out the beginning of the drives again, and then used the LIVE CD and a shell to manually set up the drives. Then all I had to do from the alternative CD was set up the RAID. It should have worked. It came close. But it told me there was already a RAID partition in place using hardware partitions that didn't exist. Fortunately it let me delete it, and then set up new RAID partitions using the hardware partitions I'd already set up. That "took". The rest just took a lot of time, but was relatively uneventful (thanks, Randall, for giving me the courage to bail out of a kmail backup restore that seemed to be going nowhere, from within Dolphin, and to again log in through a shell and start over. So far it's looking relatively good. Jeff -- Jeff Lasman Post Office Box 52200, Riverside, CA 92517 Our jplists address used on lists is for list email only Phone +1 909 266-9209, or see: "http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html"; _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list LinuxUsers@socallinux.org http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
