Hi Basil, I wanted to move this to a new thread, so it would be easier to spot in people's inbox :)
OS/2 eh? I remember using that for a while. Unfortunately that was during the time of MS' big move to control the market. And well, they did. They are still trying to, however the advent of the smartphone has seriously jeopardized their chances.... much like Netscape Navigator did with IE taking over the internet (and Firefox does still against MS and Google taking over the free web) Regarding moving your home to a separate partition in a 'working' install: The potential for data loss is very real in this case. No matter what you decide to do, you should BACKUP your home partition to whatever media you have (USB/SD/external HD, etc...) This is something we should all be doing fairly periodically either way. So, here is some reading material for you. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Partitioning/Home/Moving This seems fairly straight forward. But, if it were me, I would simply backup my /home and reinstall. See this for some info: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DiskSpace#Separate_.2BAC8-home_.28optional.29 and here is one with screenshots (albeit older, but still relevant) http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/installseparatehome The main consideration is that you will have to use the "Do something else" option if you choose to reinstall from a disk ever again, and set it up the same. something like: 17Gig partition mounted at / 32 Gig mounted at /home 1 Gig swap partition You can of course try the first method, and if it does not succeed you have a backup of your home anyway, and can simply reinstall. But don't share your home partition with other distros... there are lots of issues that could creep up that way, unfortunately, especially using your ~/.config directory Your ~/.config directory is the one that holds the configuration files, and may be the culprit of your current mess, though it might simply be a mess of incomplete things installed. hope this info helps your restoration process -- Regards -- Lubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users
