Re: reinstalling ubuntu 12.10

2013-04-13 Thread Ali Linx (amjjawad)
Hello Paul, 250GB is the capacity of your HDD You do have an External HDD 2GB RAM And your partitions are a bit of a mess :D Well, this is what I would do if I were you: 1- BACKUP each and every important file to my external HDD 2- IF and ONLY IF you want to get rid of the whole thing and start

Fwd: Re: reinstalling ubuntu 12.10

2013-04-12 Thread Barry Titterton
Original Message Subject:Re: reinstalling ubuntu 12.10 Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 09:45:17 +0100 From: Barry Titterton titterton.ba...@gmail.com To: Phill Whiteside phi...@vpolink.com On 08/04/13 20:21, Phill Whiteside wrote: Hi loannis, back in the crazy

reinstalling ubuntu 12.10

2013-04-08 Thread Paul Sutton
Hi I need to re-install Lubuntu cleanly, my current system is dual boot with linpus, which is never used, the rest of the system was ubuntu which via apt-get install lubuntu-dekstop now runs that hence i may have previosuly referred to this as hybrid. http://zleap.net/reinstall-of-lubuntu/

Re: reinstalling ubuntu 12.10

2013-04-08 Thread Phill Whiteside
Hi Paul, I'd suggest letting /boot live in / (/boot can fill with old kernels if you do not keep a close eye on them!) Unless you are expecting to launch huge applications (not games, as they do not like using swap) 2GB is enough for swap My / partition which has boot, my log files and data files

Re: reinstalling ubuntu 12.10

2013-04-08 Thread Ioannis Vranos
Hi, If you do not need separate partitions for some specific reason, I suggest install Lubuntu in one / partition, along with a swap partition ( it is the default Lubuntu installation). Ioannis Vranos http://www.cppsoftware.net On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net

Re: reinstalling ubuntu 12.10

2013-04-08 Thread Phill Whiteside
Hi loannis, back in the crazy days it was advised to have a seperate /home. Whether this is still valid these days? Pass... would I ever forgo my seperate /home partition? Never :) You can do some crazy things, and bad things can happen to good machines. I have always preferred my home (i.e

Re: reinstalling ubuntu 12.10

2013-04-08 Thread Ioannis Vranos
Yes, keeping the settings (especially of many users), during upgrades, is a reason for a separate /home partition. Multiuser production systems also need a separate /temp partition, etc. This is why I said for some specific reason. Usually, home users do not need separate partitions. Ioannis