Re: [ilugd] Reinstalling Ubuntu on dual booted machine

2006-03-02 Thread विवेक ऐय ्यर விவேக ஐய்யர் Vivek Iyyer
actually one could do so ... with the CD by changing the CD references from one CD to another. but the beter way of handling this .. is to keep you home directory(I would reccomend it to be home directory partition) intact and install on the / partition. cheers vivek On 3/1/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ilugd] Reinstalling Ubuntu on dual booted machine

2006-03-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
विवेक ऐय्यर விவேக ஐய்யர் Vivek Iyyer wrote: actually one could do so ... with the CD by changing the CD references from one CD to another. but the beter way of handling this .. is to keep you home directory(I would reccomend it to be home directory partition) intact and install on the /

Re: [ilugd] Reinstalling Ubuntu on dual booted machine

2006-03-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
विवेक ऐय्यर விவேக ஐய்யர் Vivek Iyyer wrote: actually one could do so ... with the CD by changing the CD references from one CD to another. but the beter way of handling this .. is to keep you home directory(I would reccomend it to be home directory partition) intact and install on the /

[ilugd] Reinstalling Ubuntu on dual booted machine

2006-03-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi I need to install ( upgrade) from Ubuntu 5.04 to 5.10 (Breezy) on a Thinkpad T 43 machine. Which is dual booted with Win XP. Do I proceed with a normal install or is there any precautions I should take, to ensure that WiN XP remains and I don't have to fiddle around with it. Thanks ram

Re: [ilugd] Reinstalling Ubuntu on dual booted machine

2006-03-01 Thread Sudev Barar
On 3/1/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to install ( upgrade) from Ubuntu 5.04 to 5.10 (Breezy) on a Thinkpad T 43 machine. Which is dual booted with Win XP. Do I proceed with a normal install or is there any precautions I should take, to ensure that WiN XP remains and I

Re: [ilugd] Reinstalling Ubuntu on dual booted machine

2006-03-01 Thread Akshay Lamba
On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 13:36 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do I proceed with a normal install or is there any precautions I should take, to ensure that WiN XP remains and I don't have to fiddle around with it. I upgraded in a similar setup and it pretty much worked intuitively. Akshay

Re: [ilugd] Reinstalling Ubuntu on dual booted machine

2006-03-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Akshay Lamba wrote: On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 13:36 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do I proceed with a normal install or is there any precautions I should take, to ensure that WiN XP remains and I don't have to fiddle around with it. I upgraded in a similar setup and it pretty much worked

Re: [ilugd] Reinstalling Ubuntu on dual booted machine

2006-03-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sudev Barar wrote: Just go and install. Ubuntu prompts for dual booting. -- Thanks for the encouragement here i go :) ram ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at:

Re: [ilugd] Reinstalling Ubuntu on dual booted machine

2006-03-01 Thread Gaurav
why not this .. 1)change all references in your /etc/apt/sources.list from warty tohoary 2) sudo apt-get update 3) sudo apt-get -f upgrade On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 15:31 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sudev Barar wrote: Just go and install. Ubuntu prompts for dual booting. -- Thanks

Re: [ilugd] Reinstalling Ubuntu on dual booted machine

2006-03-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gaurav wrote: why not this .. 1)change all references in your /etc/apt/sources.list from warty tohoary 2) sudo apt-get update 3) sudo apt-get -f upgrade 1. No bandwidth 2. whatever little rading I have done says don't upgrade 3. There is a little problem of some maybe corrupted