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After installing Ubuntu 9.04 on my HP4325, I decided to try 9.10 on my DV9000 series laptop. I purchased a 320GB 7200 RPM Seagate hard drive and an external USB 2.0 enclosure, and copied the disk using Acronis 11. I had to do some manipulation to create partitions before the disk copy, and ended up […]
I still have a 6-1/2 year old HP4325us Athlon XP laptop that, like a Timex watch, just keeps on ticking. Just for grins, I replaced the 4200RPM 40GB hard drive with a 160GB 5400RPM PATA drive (PATA laptop drives are rapidly fading from existence), and installed Ubuntu 9.04. Normally I’m more of a Red Hat […]
I’m a long time Linux fan, and many things have improved since the early days, but upgrades are still much more difficult than they should be. After what anaconda thought it was done, grub stopped at the “grub>” prompt. Fixing this required booting off the DVD in rescue mode and running “grub-install /dev/sda” Now I […]
This occurred when upgrading from Fedora 8 to 9, and again upgrading to 10 – grub seems to get mangled. I had to boot from the rescue disk and fix it as follows: chroot /mnt/sysimage grub root (hd0,0) setup (hd0) quit After getting this working, I found that I still had several hundred Fedora-9 packages […]
Following the # yum -y install preupgrade # preupgrade instructions posted on http://www.gagme.com/greg/linux/f9-tips.php, I updated from Fedora 8 to Fedora 9. I encountered problems with firefox and with “gecko-libs” 1.9.0.2 dependencies for devhelp and yelp. In frustration, I removed the dependent packages via: # yum remove firefox, devhelp nspluginwrapper yelp followed by updating via pup. […]
