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Udibuntu
September 5th, 2008, 09:00 PM
Hi,

I plan on upgrading from 7.04 to 8.04, preferably by clean install of Hardy.

Some questions regarding my configuration:

1) Any known issues on Hardy working on Lenovo Thinkpad R60e? (No specific issues can be found in Thinkwiki (http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Installing_Ubuntu_on_a_ThinkPad_R60e))

2) I have a dual boot system. I don't have a home partition...missed it the first (and only) time I installed Feisty. Can I work around this or must I first make a home partition and only then install Hardy? which leads me to:

3) Am i too paranoid in wanting to backup other partitions also - Win, shared, Thinkpad R&R?

4) Hardy comes with Firefox 3 beta 5. I'm using FF3.01 and want to keep it. Must I get FF3.01 from Mozilla (and enable Flash) or can I apt get it?

That's it for now, probably more to come..I'm dreading this a bit..

Thanks for any advice,

Udi

Elfy
September 5th, 2008, 09:51 PM
I would always make sure I had backups of anything I couldn't afford to lose, so no I don't think you're too paranoid :)

IF you have backups then you don't need a seperate home - obviously e-mail etc, if you wanted to make a sepereate hoime for next time you could copy data back from the backups - with relation to permissions I think you are best using the same username.

You can make a seperate /home prior to reinstalling hardy - I don't bother anymore myself and use seperate data partitions. http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/separatehome

Hardy used to have the beta version of ff - it is now 3.01

Can't answer the thinkpad question .

Hope that is some help

Udibuntu
September 6th, 2008, 07:16 AM
Thanks Pixie, what you say sounds reasonable enough.

I'll look into backuping methods and clean install Hardy with a home partition this time.

Cheers and I'll update when I'm done.

Udi