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Thread ID: 103152 2009-09-14 02:19:00 Here Goes ANOTHER Ubuntu Installation! SurferJoe46 (51) PC World Chat
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809982 2009-09-14 02:19:00 On my little old Dell .

I got 9 . 04 and want to see if I can make it work too .

The other puter is running great! :banana:clap:thumbs:

Thanks all and I tried to make it an interesting interlude for youse all . It certainly was for me . :wub
SurferJoe46 (51)
809983 2009-09-14 02:27:00 Good luck :D Erayd (23)
809984 2009-09-14 03:35:00 Wanna see my surgical scars too? SurferJoe46 (51)
809985 2009-09-14 03:56:00 Now there's an idea for a thread!!! I got some beauties! johcar (6283)
809986 2009-09-15 02:02:00 It must be contagious - I've just installed PCOS WS 64 bit, which seems to be riddled with Ubuntu-ness, but is using XFCE as a desktop, and comes with all the usually omitted codecs.
A lack of brown-orange, and the no-show of Gnome are a big plus for me. (Bargnomes excepted, of course).
The local repositories seem good, so maybe this will be the first Ubuntu version to see more than one sunrise here.
:thumbs:
R2x1 (4628)
809987 2009-09-15 02:55:00 I decided to wipe the whole hdd and start a fresh XP-P install and then gonna install Ubuntu 9 . 06 .

One thing that bothers me is that after I got it all up and running, it had all these updates and security add-ons to get and when I told it to get them it said it didn't have enough room to install them .
Go figger! How am I supposed to over-ride the installation and the size of the swapfile area in anticipation of needing more room .

Seems it isn't well thought-out for eventualities .

But I will persevere .

Bulletin: Patrick Swayze just died .
SurferJoe46 (51)
809988 2009-09-15 03:24:00 If you have a spare HDD, install to that cleanly without any MS. Throw in a live disk, select install, tell it where you live and what sort of keyboard, and it should be a piece of cake, using auto-partition.
If you want to be fancy about it, make one partition for /boot only needs to be a few MB, 20GB for /, then put another 30 GB for /home, a GB or two for /swap and let 'er rip. All of 'em except swap can be fs3 for simplicity.
A very light smear of Vegemite on finely toasted bread applied to the operator's interior will assist the entire process.
R2x1 (4628)
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