Hansmc
November 27th, 2009, 05:12 PM
I need help doing a clean install of Ubuntu. I upgraded it all ready but so many things or not work and I have not had much luck on getting things working, also the boot is significantly slower then before the upgrade.
Last time I did a clean install I made a separate /home partition and formated every thing ext4. That was with Ubuntu 9.04. The problem was adding all the other apps that I "need". It takes hours to search and select them all, and over a day to down load them all. I did it in batches last time and are Internet is not real fast.
Questions:
1. Would it help to clean up the /home partition? How?
2. Should I reformat /.
3. Is there some easy way to save all my apps so I do not have to down load or install them again? Would that be a bad thing? They all (except the wine ones) come from "add/remove programs" (now Ubuntu Software center) or Synaptic.
4. What about the four or so things I run in wine?
5. Is there anything else that would help the install go more smoothly?
Thanks for your help.
Last time I did a clean install I made a separate /home partition and formated every thing ext4. That was with Ubuntu 9.04. The problem was adding all the other apps that I "need". It takes hours to search and select them all, and over a day to down load them all. I did it in batches last time and are Internet is not real fast.
Questions:
1. Would it help to clean up the /home partition? How?
2. Should I reformat /.
3. Is there some easy way to save all my apps so I do not have to down load or install them again? Would that be a bad thing? They all (except the wine ones) come from "add/remove programs" (now Ubuntu Software center) or Synaptic.
4. What about the four or so things I run in wine?
5. Is there anything else that would help the install go more smoothly?
Thanks for your help.