On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 6:32 AM, Jeff Lasman <jpli...@nobaloney.net> wrote:
> 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>). > I'm pretty sure most distributions these days can easily be labelled as "lazy linux". > > 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. > While your issues may not be around kalarm and kmail directly they have been mentioned many times either something not working or trying to keep them intact while upgrading/reinstalling. Have you considered moving to Google Apps? It is far better than desktop apps for managing both mail and scheduling even if you are just a couple people. I used to use desktop apps and when I finally gave it some time to be entirely in the browser. 3 years later I have never looked back, and I use the products now more than ever. > > 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 >
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