pjstock
October 7th, 2009, 10:23 PM
I foolishly interupted an upgrade from 8.04 to 9.04 and incapacitated my GF's machine.
I was advised to reinstall 9.04 from CD.
I am nervous though of the risk of losing files already on the system.
I planned to back them up over the LAN, but using a "from CD" temporary install, I cannot seem to get access to the two users folders over the LAN using Samba (I did smbpasswd -a and -e and set up a share in Samba but I am being refused access from a windows machine on the LAN.)
before I go ahead and install 9.04, can someone tell me what I have to read to be sure of protecting the existing data. I have read about partitioning and it still baffles me (and I was a Comp Sci major 25 years ago.)
How when say Manually setting the partition sizes, do I ensure that the existing data is safely tucked away?
I was advised to reinstall 9.04 from CD.
I am nervous though of the risk of losing files already on the system.
I planned to back them up over the LAN, but using a "from CD" temporary install, I cannot seem to get access to the two users folders over the LAN using Samba (I did smbpasswd -a and -e and set up a share in Samba but I am being refused access from a windows machine on the LAN.)
before I go ahead and install 9.04, can someone tell me what I have to read to be sure of protecting the existing data. I have read about partitioning and it still baffles me (and I was a Comp Sci major 25 years ago.)
How when say Manually setting the partition sizes, do I ensure that the existing data is safely tucked away?