On 16 November 2010 08:06, Thomas Ibbotson wrote:
> On 14 November 2010 00:04, Alan Pope wrote:
>> On 13 November 2010 22:42, wrote:
>>> I'm gonna have to run through the installer again then, because I don't
>>> remember seeing it automatically ask me about /home,
>>
>> It doesn't ask you abo
On 14 November 2010 00:04, Alan Pope wrote:
> On 13 November 2010 22:42, wrote:
>> I'm gonna have to run through the installer again then, because I don't
>> remember seeing it automatically ask me about /home,
>
> It doesn't ask you about /home at all. It's a kinda hidden feature.
>
>> and if
On 15 November 2010 12:29, wrote:
> Fighting for the old ways here; with a seperate partition, you can share your
> /home with multiple installs :)
Often this is ok, but you can run into problems if you run different
versions of an app using the same /home as the settings files get
flipped up a
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On Sun, 2010-11-14 at 00:04 +, Alan Pope wrote:
> On 13 November 2010 22:42, wrote:
> > I'm gonna have to run through the installer again then, because I don't
> > remember seeing it automatically ask me about /home,
>
> It doesn't ask you about /home at all. It's a kinda hidden feature.
On 13 November 2010 22:42, wrote:
> I'm gonna have to run through the installer again then, because I don't
> remember seeing it automatically ask me about /home,
It doesn't ask you about /home at all. It's a kinda hidden feature.
> and if you were doing it manually and didn't specify a mount
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On 13 November 2010 19:32, wrote:
> [...]
> Is the not formatting /home a new feature? If its not set up
On 13 November 2010 19:32, wrote:
> [...]
> Is the not formatting /home a new feature? If its not set up as a seperate
> partition, then it is just mounted under / which gets formatted on install
If you specify _not_ to format / then home is left as is. I have just
used this myself to insta
On 13/11/10 17:20, bod...@googlemail.com wrote:
> Hi Nigel,
>
> Last time I checked, there is no supported way of "downgrading" between
> distributions.
>
> I would recommend a clean install of 10.10 first to see if you still get the
> issues, if you do, then reinstall the LTS.
>
> Your proba
On 13 November 2010 19:32, wrote:
> Config files shouldn't be an issue. Any half-decent program will sanity check
> its config files and recreate them if the current ones are
> incompatible/corrupt.
>
Define half-decent. On upgrading from one release to another many
popular programs which we s
If its not set up as a seperate
partition, then it is just mounted under /which gets formatted on install
Bodsda
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On 13 November
On 13 November 2010 17:20, wrote:
> Your probably aware of this, but if you can set up a seperate partition for
> your /home, this saves an immense amount of backup time when reinstalling as
> you can choose (advanced mode) to only format the / and just mount the old
> /home
>
Not necessary.
On 13 November 2010 16:00, Nigel Verity wrote:
> I've installed Xubuntu 10.10 on my two laptops (Acer and Dell). Both display
> problems with programs crashing that I never encountered on 10.4, though
> they're not the same problems on each. I'm tempted to revert to 10.4 LTS. I
> got from 10.4 to
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Hi All
A bit of advice please.
I've installed Xubuntu 10.10 on my two laptops (Acer and Dell). Both display
problems with programs crashing that I never encountered on 10.4, though
they're not the same problems on each. I'm tempted to revert to 10.4 LTS. I got
from 10.4 to 10.10 using the
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