Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: boot-loaders, was: Fw: Penguins: (Was Corrupt Installer Errors??)

I started with Ubuntu with version 8.10, and have had each version since 
then. I generally find it easiest to do a clean install. One advantage 
of that is every 6 months I have a complete backup of my hard drive. The 
second advantage is it is very easy to do. Each program has its own 
hidden file under the home directory, such as .thunderbird, .mozilla, 
.filezilla, gimp-2.8, etc. Once the new install is completed, and you 
have the programs installed that you wish from the repository or the 
ppa, open each one one time to create the .whatever hidden file. Then 
simply delete that file and replace it with the backed up file, and you 
have all of your settings, e-mail, bookmarks, server settings for 
filezille, and everything exactly the way was. Very easy and very fast. 
Much, much, much faster than doing a clean install of Windows.

Don


On 10/06/2013 11:36 AM, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote:
> On 10/06/2013 11:06 AM, James Knott wrote:
> > Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote:
> > > It was really "nice" of Windows to stop allowing me to boot into Ubuntu
> > > after I upgraded from Vista to Win7.  I had to use a boot "fixer" disc
> > > to give me back my Ubuntu.  At least that laptop is the one I use only
> > > once in a while, since I have a small drive in it, compared to my other one.
> > I have never had a problem with not being able to access Linux when
> > Windows is on the system.  Windows installs will always break the boot
> > loader, so you have to be prepared to deal with that.  However,
> > reinstalling Windows from the DVDs has never trashed Linux, though I
> > have heard some recovery discs will.  So, as a rule, unless I have no
> > alternative, I install Windows first and then Linux.  With my ThinkPad
> > E520, the first thing I did was to build the recovery DVDs and then used
> > the Windows tools to shrink the partition, to make room for the Linux
> > install.  I have not had to reinstall Windows 7 since then.  On my old
> > ThinkPad, I did reinstall from DVD, but it did not touch the Linux
> > partitions, only the boot loader.
> It was the upgrading [overwriting with new install] from Vista 32-bit to
> Win7 Pro 64-bit that messed with GRUB.
>
> I had my Ubuntu installed like I like it and did not want to wipe the
> entire drive for the Vista to Win7 "upgrading".  It takes a lot of work
> to install Ubuntu 12.04, plus MATE d.e., and all of the packages I want
> and setting up all of the printers and such just like it was before.
> Then there are the endless amounts of updates that Ubuntu would do.  So
> I really do not like to wipe the drive just to install the newer version
> of Windows.
>
> At least it was not setting up my main desktop.  When I replaced a bad
> primary drive [/sda], it took over 15 hours to install, tweak, etc. all
> of the packages, plus all of the files back from backups and STILL I am
> finding that I missed a tweak or package.

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