Originally Posted by
fcorourke
I tried that also, why is mine different?? Mainly how, I do a basic install with basic options -- nothing special and I guess it might be the computer, but that [this one] is pretty basic too AMD 3800 with ATI 9800 XT Pro with 3 gigs of memory. Thanks so much for trying. I try and run [and do mostly] Ubuntu all the time, only some things -- I lost internet in Windows 2 months ago & I do not care as I only use some apps. But flash is important in email and too much now to ignore.
Fred
Personally I like to do all my installs with a 3 partition setup. One for "/" (root), one for "/home" (User's Home Folders), and one for Swap.
Having a partition for "/home" makes it easy to formation and reinstall the OS without losing your files and program settings.
You can also create a list of all your packages you have installed on the system. If you every need to reinstall the OS it's simple to reinstall all your packages with one command.
To create a list of all currently installed packages:
Code:
sudo dpkg --get-selections > $HOME/package.selections
Note: Make sure to get a copy of your sources.list file, if you've added any additional repositories.
Code:
sudo cp /etc/apt/sources.list $HOME/source.list
This will create a backup in your user's home folder.
After the OS has been reinstalled to the "/" (root) partition.
Now you can restore all the packages in use before the OS was reinstalled with this command. I also think is a good idea to get all your OS updates first before install your packages.
Code:
sudo dpkg --set-selections <$HOME/package.selections && sudo apt-get dselect-upgrade
This can possibly take a long time based on the number and size of packages.
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