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| xubuntu802 | heloo | 11:18 |
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| golfwang | hello | 12:52 |
| golfwang | can anyone tell me how i can replace ubuntu 14.10 with xubuntu 14.04 without losing my data? | 12:53 |
| baizon | golfwang: http://askubuntu.com/questions/64241/how-do-i-switch-to-xubuntu | 13:18 |
| nomic | 'plug in the disk'? | 13:21 |
| nomic | ah - downgrade? | 13:21 |
| * nomic would install it next to 14.10 | 13:22 | |
| nomic | minimise 14.04 partition | 13:22 |
| nomic | then the 14.10 partition is visible from 14.04, as a volume | 13:22 |
| knome | they asked replace, not dualboot | 13:22 |
| nomic | will be visible, without manually mounting it | 13:22 |
| golfwang | ok | 13:22 |
| nomic | well you have to back up your data then | 13:22 |
| knome | golfwang, if you haven't got /home on a separate partition, then you definitely need backups | 13:23 |
| nomic | because you can't 'downgrade' | 13:23 |
| nomic | you can upgrade | 13:23 |
| nomic | and your data sits where it is , os gets upgraded | 13:23 |
| longbonglungfish | hey xubuntu brothers. i have a simple question: i recently upgrading to xfce 4.12 on xubuntu 14.04, via the xubuntu dev team xfce 4.12 ppa. i forgot to do sudo apt-get dist-upgrade after adding the ppa and doing sudo apt-get update. instead, after update, i simply opened synaptic and marked then upgraded the relevant packages through there. is this ok? should i revert and repeat the process with dist-upgrade instead? i ask bec | 14:44 |
| longbonglungfish | ause i now have two versions of libxfce4util, and i'm not sure if this is normal. thanks in advance for help! | 14:44 |
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| SonikkuAmerica | Xubuntu doesn't seem to have a minimum requirement for processors. I'm looking around for a *buntu for a friend with a Intel Pentium II... would that work? | 16:02 |
| mrkramps | SonikkuAmerica, nope | 16:13 |
| SonikkuAmerica | Thanks. :) | 16:14 |
| Eniot | Bonjour les gens :-) Juste une question svp ? | 16:45 |
| elfy | !fr | Eniot | 16:46 |
| ubottu | Eniot: Nous sommes desoles mais ce canal est en anglais uniquement. Si vous avez besoin d'aide ou voulez discuter en français, veuillez taper /join #ubuntu-fr ou /join #ubuntu-qc. Merci. | 16:46 |
| Eniot | ok thanks bye ^^ | 16:46 |
| beachbuddah | morning all - I am dl xubuntu 14.04.2 as we type to an ubuntu live usb environment | 18:38 |
| beachbuddah | I want to install xubuntu to an external hdd | 18:38 |
| beachbuddah | can do? If so, how? I mean what tools or magic needs to be performed? | 18:38 |
| bazhang | point the installer to the hdd | 18:39 |
| beachbuddah | ok.. | 18:39 |
| beachbuddah | that's it? | 18:39 |
| bazhang | what fs is on it now | 18:39 |
| beachbuddah | ext4 | 18:40 |
| bazhang | will this drive be shared with other os | 18:40 |
| beachbuddah | no I am screwed on my main hdd - ubuntu tahr is there but when I try to boot it i get the nasty ol' OS Not Found message | 18:41 |
| bazhang | but the liveusb boots fine | 18:42 |
| beachbuddah | but I would rather not reinstall on that partition, all my good junk is there (in an encrypted home folder - oops) and I would prefer to rescue it after I have a working full os again | 18:42 |
| beachbuddah | thought I would try out xubuntu when 15.04 came out, but now is as good a time as any | 18:42 |
| amari | beachbuddah: It should be already stable enough right now ;),in case you don't want to wait | 18:43 |
| beachbuddah | the live usb boots fine, but I ahve installed (once on the external hdd and once on another partition on the main hdd) and neither is read - I think whatever is used as an image must be corrupted? | 18:43 |
| bazhang | release of vivid is quite soon, so if you do all the updates etc it will regular vivd once its fully released | 18:43 |
| beachbuddah | I'm fairly easy - it won't give me headaches, trying to rescue my eoolishly encrypted data? | 18:44 |
| beachbuddah | that should be foolishly | 18:44 |
| bazhang | no way to know that in advance | 18:44 |
| beachbuddah | lol, of course | 18:45 |
| bazhang | always a good plan to have backups before trying that | 18:45 |
| beachbuddah | yes - backups existed but sadly, things went pearshaped quite recently and they are gone baby gone | 18:46 |
| beachbuddah | now this installer of which you speak | 18:46 |
| knome | amari, a beta or even an RC is never recommended on a production machine. | 18:46 |
| beachbuddah | before I point it anywhere, where do I acquire this magickal item? | 18:47 |
| amari | knome: But there is only one week and 2 days remaining until final. And xfce is usually very stable... | 18:47 |
| knome | amari, there is no "but"s | 18:47 |
| beachbuddah | stable buts, yes, but the installer...? | 18:48 |
| amari | knome: So you suggest he installs 14.10 now and updates to 15.04 next week? Do you think this is more stable than using the beta/RC? I don't think so... | 18:50 |
| amari | *upgrades | 18:50 |
| knome | amari, whether he is willing to take the risk or not with 15.04 is his own business, but if it's a production environment or any environment that requires stability, he shouldn't. | 18:51 |
| Unit193 | It's not released yet, so could go boom tomorrow. | 18:52 |
| beachbuddah | amari - under my current circumstances - with the home folder encrypted and living either on a disk or in an OS that is corrupted, I think it is preferable to use a known stable release - I am actually dl 14.04 | 18:52 |
| amari | 14.04 is a great option, since it is LTS ;) | 18:52 |
| beachbuddah | otherwise, had I just been curious about xubuntu, I would have considered the rc that is out now | 18:53 |
| beachbuddah | just what I was thinking | 18:53 |
| beachbuddah | and (since I am a pissy fool) I am a little cranky with ubuntu since it didn't install x2 for me in this crisis of mine - I'll show 'em, xubuntu here I come... | 18:54 |
| beachbuddah | now, earlier bazhang mentioned pointing the installer - | 18:55 |
| beachbuddah | just what is the installer and where do I get mine? | 18:55 |
| knome | if you are downloading a 14.04 ISO, you are getting the installer | 18:56 |
| beachbuddah | aww - aren't they generous...so I double click or extract here or... | 18:56 |
| beachbuddah | I may seem stupid, but thats only cause I am | 18:56 |
| beachbuddah | I have always installed off a live CD or usb before, so this installer is outside my realm of experience | 18:57 |
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| knome | beachbuddah, just do the same as ever | 18:57 |
| Unit193 | That is it, ubiquity is the installer used in the live session. | 18:57 |
| beachbuddah | well - my issue is that I now have linited resources, right? the usb stick ( the one and only) is in the slot runing the live session - it (surpisingly)eats the cd/dvd controller resource so I cannot create a rescue cd else I would have so I will have the iso once the dl is complete - and that was the original Q - can I install to an external drive from a (I should have said pre-existing) liuveusb session | 19:00 |
| beachbuddah | as in right now - dl is complete, iso resting comfortably in the downloads folder after that exhausting ordeal, wondering what is in store for it next... | 19:01 |
| bazhang | thats quite different from your original question | 19:06 |
| beachbuddah | is it? Then I apologize - I am flummoxed after two days of messing around and discovering how much I do not know | 19:07 |
| beachbuddah | Though, here I sit - in a live usb session, having downloaded xubuntu, wondering how to install said os to an external hdd | 19:09 |
| beachbuddah | Well, bazhang, knome, amari, unit193 all of you for your time and assistance. Problem not solved, but you tried - in #ubuntu, I didn't even get a response to the question | 19:32 |
| beachbuddah | have a great day all | 19:32 |
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