Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb:
In the past days I had to replace my old CRT, and now I have left no
working Linux, only Vista made the change without problems. SuSE 10.3
has lost its X configuration, 11.2 probably caused more damage to all
Linux drives with disk "checks" (and repairs), now doesn't find its
kernel any more, Ubuntu cannot use the second monitor any more, and
Kubuntu looses the desktop configuration on every new boot :-(
All that by replacing your monitor??? Wow, that must be some special
monitor. :-)
I turned out to be a combined me-monitor-driver-X11 problem. The new
screen is bigger than the old one, so that the system fell back into
single-monitor mode. Afterwards I managed to damage my xorg.conf,
supported by the nVidia driver, and on [K]Ubuntu by "parsing" errors
before writing back the config. The latter problems make [K]Ubuntu
useless for now, though these work better with the rest of my hardware,
and have much faster application management than SuSE has.
The workstations, I prefer not to "upgrade", but rather reinstall when a
new stable Ubuntu is releases. For Ubuntu desktop, I normally use every
second release (every six months is to quick for me). I always split my
hard drive into 4 partitions (/, /home, /opt, swap) and when I reinstall I
backup the 'etc' directory first, then format the '/' partition and
reinstall. So all my custom installed software like FPC, Lazarus, MSEide
etc live in /opt so they are not affected at all. All my custom settings,
data, source code etc are in /home, and is not affected either. So a
reinstall is a 30 minute job and I'm up and running like I was before with
all my previous applications intact. Config settings are restored very
easily from my backed-up 'etc', if the new Ubuntu install did not detect
them automatically.
Nice, but I also have a problem in identifying all my partitions. Having
5 systems on my machine, and several shared partitions, I'm looking for
giving them unique names, visible from every (Linux) system, but don't
know how to do that :-(
DoDi
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