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Thanks for that tip about the sticky bit.

Phew. Glad that actually worked :) Ubuntu is now the sole OS on my laptop. Excellent thread!

Ok, I got it to boot... sort of. During the initial startup, everything looked ok except for these two lines:



WARNING: .udevdb already exists on the old /dev/!
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/dev/hda2 has gone 49710...

I'm restoring from my backup right now. I followed your steps, although I wasn't able to eject the knoppix cd to extract the backup from my DVDRW. I had to put the backup.tgz in a shared folder on my...

Isn't there some way to preserve the original file attributes and ownership when you extract them using tar? According the the man pages for tar the -p flag preserves permissions and --same-owner...

In that case, I think I'll wait to attempt my re-partition and restore O_o

Thanks for the heads up.

GRUB should still work fine. I'm not actually going to format the entire drive, but rather delete the existing partitions, create new ones, and format them for linux. The MBR, where GRUB is...

I've managed to back up my Ubuntu install on my laptop to a windows network drive using this guide. Right now I'm backing up the stuff on the windows partition using Ghost.

When that's done, I'm...

Excellent guide :)

I'd like to try this, but I have very limited space on this hard drive (laptop) and I'm pretty certain I don't have room to generate the backup here. Is there a way to redirect...