Hi all, thought I'd update the thread. Due to my inexperience in partitioning HDDs I created a small (or at least it was filled by something) partition for the main Ubuntu software. I tried to upgrade to the latest version but it couldn't, rather than re-size I rebuilt.
The intention was that I'd use 10.04 Server, using software raid 1 as I've 2 500GB HDDs. Due to having an old M/B it didn't boot at all so went back to using 1 HDD at a time and using the Client OS. I've used (yep a waste I know!) 1 HDD for the majority of the build and the second for the /home partition. Theory being once SSD becomes cheaper I can install and maintain my /home directory. I'm in the process of moving my music from USB HDD (the backup) to the main box, having problems with this as 'cp' wouldn't work (too many files, >7000) so am having to copy a letter at a time, should be finished soon! I did try xarg but couldn't get the command right. So far the boot time is between 1 and 2 minutes which does appear to be an improvement, I'm going to stop the GDM from starting at boot which may improve things and see what other services can be stopped (CUPS etc). I think any improvements now will need new hardware, certainly from a power consumption front and boot time. At the moment I can live with it as can't afford to upgrade (yet!). -- timearp *Ubuntu 9.04 (32 bit Desktop)* looking to upgrade to 10.04 LTS (64 bit Server)* Squeezecentre: Latest general release* . *SB3: F/W: As per Squeezecentre*, *Wireless@60%(ish).* *PC: AMD64@(?),1Gb RAM,HDD:500GB* (looking to use a CF for OS then 500GB Raid 1 for music),* Headless.* *LAN: Wired, 100Mb.* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ timearp's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=19316 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=78592 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
