Hamburgian
January 21st, 2015, 02:59 PM
I'm about to buy a new PC (rather than trying to build a suitable box, which had always worked up until 14.04!)
I fully expect a few hiccups along the way and, as such, wil probably have to do a reinstall and use a sources.list to reinstall all my programmes.
Obviously I can set the reinstall to NOt format/delete existing data...but there is a small problem.
At the moment I have two installations...one a fresh 14.04 (64 bit), the other also 14.04 but is a 32 bit installation which has been constantly updated since Gutsy.
I don't have /home for either..I moved them to a separate partition /WORK which has a /home64, a /home32 (each with a virtual drive - Win7 for the 64 bit and WinXp on the 32 bit) I also have a /home where all my docs, pics etc. are kept and shared between the two distros. The /WORK partition is also shared by my swap - i.e. an extended partition.
I'm thinking of getting rid of the 32 bit distro for a while...it has nothing extra except acroread which is no onger available, but in reality no better than ocular. So I could resize and use that as a swap. But If I have to reinstall will my Windows still work..or will I have to reinstall? This really would be a pain and would probably involve lengthy sessions with a windows administrator to reinstall.
Has anyone any experience of doing this, or does anyone know of a workaround?
Ta in advance
I fully expect a few hiccups along the way and, as such, wil probably have to do a reinstall and use a sources.list to reinstall all my programmes.
Obviously I can set the reinstall to NOt format/delete existing data...but there is a small problem.
At the moment I have two installations...one a fresh 14.04 (64 bit), the other also 14.04 but is a 32 bit installation which has been constantly updated since Gutsy.
I don't have /home for either..I moved them to a separate partition /WORK which has a /home64, a /home32 (each with a virtual drive - Win7 for the 64 bit and WinXp on the 32 bit) I also have a /home where all my docs, pics etc. are kept and shared between the two distros. The /WORK partition is also shared by my swap - i.e. an extended partition.
I'm thinking of getting rid of the 32 bit distro for a while...it has nothing extra except acroread which is no onger available, but in reality no better than ocular. So I could resize and use that as a swap. But If I have to reinstall will my Windows still work..or will I have to reinstall? This really would be a pain and would probably involve lengthy sessions with a windows administrator to reinstall.
Has anyone any experience of doing this, or does anyone know of a workaround?
Ta in advance