Hagar55
May 1st, 2010, 12:07 PM
I installed Lucid on both my desktop (aging thing) and my laptop (Dell studio 1737).
Now I have some mixed results , startup on both machines is slow due to GRUB taking ages to figure things out...?
The desktop was a clean Karmic install, the laptop was a Jaunty upgradid to Karmic (already lost some speed there...).
Now the laptop refuses to show the screen brightness indicator and some other small things, desktop seems to be behaving but I kind of get the feeling that's it's not ideal.
I'm thinking of clean installing both of them.
Now for the desktop I was wondering if I can keep the home partition I made or would it be better to just start clean over with everything ?
Both are a dual boot with windows, XP on the desktop, Vista an the laptop (needed for work).
Now the laptop is a different question , I can have the desktop go down for a few days while I tinker it back to life. The laptop however needs to stay online, I cannot afford to lost it for a few days.
It runs 32 bit right now, but the CPU (Intel P8600) should be able to run 64 bit, is it worth upgrading when I clean install it and if so, do I need to wipe the Home partition as well or can I keep it and will it upgrade the neccesary files ?
Now I have some mixed results , startup on both machines is slow due to GRUB taking ages to figure things out...?
The desktop was a clean Karmic install, the laptop was a Jaunty upgradid to Karmic (already lost some speed there...).
Now the laptop refuses to show the screen brightness indicator and some other small things, desktop seems to be behaving but I kind of get the feeling that's it's not ideal.
I'm thinking of clean installing both of them.
Now for the desktop I was wondering if I can keep the home partition I made or would it be better to just start clean over with everything ?
Both are a dual boot with windows, XP on the desktop, Vista an the laptop (needed for work).
Now the laptop is a different question , I can have the desktop go down for a few days while I tinker it back to life. The laptop however needs to stay online, I cannot afford to lost it for a few days.
It runs 32 bit right now, but the CPU (Intel P8600) should be able to run 64 bit, is it worth upgrading when I clean install it and if so, do I need to wipe the Home partition as well or can I keep it and will it upgrade the neccesary files ?