I just need the money to afford the laptop i want... cause im weird and want 3 drives. stuff, OS 1 stable and Os 2 multiflavors/testing only one i know does that and the shell is 2k On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Bishmer Sekaran wrote: > Stephen wrote: >> I guess you agoold investigate the old rule of /home being its own >> partition again >> >> :-) >> >> On 4/13/09, James Finstrom wrote: >> >>> Hello All, >>> >>> So I have been fighting the urge to re-install until the final release but >>> my geekyness got the best of me and I decided to nuke my laptop and install >>> Ubuntu 9.04 beta. Well It went pretty smooth, I Have a Dell Vostro 1000 and >>> it works out of the box including the display, wireless card everything. >>> During the install it detected my previous install and offered to migrte my >>> user account, files and settings. I did a backup but thought sure why not >>> one less step. Well the migration didnt happen but its cool because i >>> planned on manual migration anyway. I still have some playing to do but so >>> far I <3 the new ubuntu.. >>> >>> >>> >>> James Finstrom >>> Rhino Equipment Corp. >>> http://rhinoequipment.com ~ http://postug.com >>> Twitter: http://twitter.com/rhinoequipment >>> IP: guest@asterisk.rhinoequipment.com >>> >>> >> >> > Stephen is bang on target here. I have /home on its own drive and it's > glorious. Root can get corrupted, destroyed, resized or anything, and > all my personal files and data remain intacta. It's also fun for when > you want to try out other distros or a BSD or something. > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss