Ubuntu :: HDD Upgrade - How To Move
Aug 7, 2010
I have never done such a thing, with a windows box nor linux, but i just got a new hdd. And at the moment i have 2 HDD in my pc adding up to 1tb. a 750 and 250.
Just got a 350 from a friend and now i dont know what to do. This case can only fit 2 drives, so i want to get ridd of the 250 in exchange for the 350. Only problem is, i have a dual boot, windows on the 750 (bad idea -_-) and ubuntu on the 250. I need to move ubuntu from the 250 to the 350. I was hoping i could keep all my files intact and what not, maybe clone the drive? but then how do i compensate for the added memory?
If worst comes to worst, ill just wipe the 250, and reinstall ubuntu on the 350. only problem with this method is i dont know whats going to happen with the grub configuration. Will it still be fine with grub? or do i have to reinstall or modify grub?
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Mar 25, 2010
I have a Dell Mini 9 running Ubuntu Netbook Remix. I would like to switch to Jolicloud (which is based on UNR.) I would like to know if it's possible to easily upgrade/move from UNR to Jolicloud, or if I must do a fresh install.
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May 19, 2011
Though I am Linux user for sometime I only recently started using Ubuntu (starting from 10.10). So far so good. Last week I was suggested by the update manager to upgrade to 11.04. I went for it. After the upgrade it worked nicely; I was so happy. It provided Mac like menus and stuffs. An auto hiding side bar. With overwhelming interest, I started paying around with it. In that process, I turned on the Compiz cube. It warned me that it was going to disable the compiz wall; I confirmed that. And that was it. I lost everything.
Now no keyboard shortcuts (like Ctrl+f4, Alt+f4, Alt+f1, Alt+f2, Alt+tab) work. No Window borders; no task bar. There was a blank desktop. All I could do was right click and get a context menu. With that I created a shortcut to run gnome-terminal, started the terminal, typed google-chrome and then typing this in the forum. As I said earlier, I do not have any short cut keys. I f I want to go back to the terminal, I have to close this browser. I can't move/resize windows.
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May 14, 2010
I have F12 on a 160GB disc, and am now looking to upgrade to F13, but also move the whole system to a 500GB disc.Is there a relatively painless/simple way to do this
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May 2, 2010
System:
Gateway box
P4 3GHz processor
1 GB RAM
one 40 GB Western Digital IDE Hard drive
one 500 GB Western Digital IDE Hard drive
NVidia-GeForce FX 5200 DDR 128MB Video Card
Hauppauge HVR-1600 Tuner Card (with accompanying remote of unknown model #)
Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Card
Ran Lucid upgrade on a mythbuntu box on Friday. On startup, though, the desktop looked quite odd - in fact, I didn't even know it was my desktop at first. It was a small white terminal 'window' in the upper left corner of a black screen. My mouse was responsive, because I had to mouse over the 'window' before I could type. I say 'window' because it had no toolbar, and I couldn't move, resize, or close it. No top or bottom panels on Gnome. it was so unrecognizable I didn't initially think it was my desktop. I assumed it was nvidia drivers, and spent a long time making sure they were installed - they do not seem to be the problem. After searching forums/internets, found several pages telling people to rename/move/delete .gnome, .gnome2, etc and gnome should revert to default. Problem persists. I can open gedit or firefox by running from command line, but when I close those windows, the image of those windows remain as part of the background.....
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Oct 6, 2010
Trying to move from squeeze to unstable -- my downloads add up to some 700 M or so.So I am trying to batch the upgrade:Some of the big-fellas are openoffice and texlive:So I didsudo aptitude hold '?name(openoffice)'sudo aptitude hold '?name(texlive)'Is that fine or are there some pitfalls to this?
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Sep 19, 2010
For Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / Gnome 2.30.2.
I have two applets on my Gnome panel -- NetworkManager Applet 0.8, and Klipper (it works better than Glipper) -- that I want to move.
HOWEVER, right-clicking the panel icons does not enable me to move these applets, as follows:
- NetworkManager Applet 0.8 does not include a Move item in its list of options.
- Klipper displays a long list of Klipper options but no Move option.
How I can move these items to new locations on the Gnome panel?
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Feb 12, 2011
I keep getting the following msg as I try to upgrade from 10.04 -> 10.10 ... "Could not calculate the upgrade An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade: E:Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages. This can be caused by:
* Upgrading to a pre-release version of Ubuntu
* Running the current pre-release version of Ubuntu
* Unofficial software packages not provided by Ubuntu
If none of this applies, then please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade/ in the bug report." I don't think any of the issues above apply - can anyone offer advice on how to get around or "force " the upgrade
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Apr 16, 2010
I am trying to upgrade from 9.10 to 10.04 beta. I tried ALT-F2 & ``update - manager -d'' but when Upate Manager opened, it did not give me the option of upgrading to 10.04 beta.
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May 3, 2011
My story thus far:I have a working, fairly customized desktop environment running Ubuntu Studio 10.10.Yesterday, I literally wasted the entire day attempting to upgrade to, and then reverting from, Ubuntu Studio 11.04 (never forget to do a grub-install when restoring your system to a previous state from backups).I am not bashing 11.04! That is not the purpose of this thread,although I believe that Unity needs some maturity,and because of this I probably won't upgrade until the next LTS.
What I would like to know is this: Is there a way that I can get the various and sundry upgrade managers to stop telling me about the 11.04 upgrade availability? I'd really like to not see it�I feel somewhat like a Luddite every time I do.
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Mar 29, 2010
I'm running 10.04 and for several days now I get two packages that are grayed out and do not upgrade in upgrade-manager.
If I use the shell and apt-get I get the following message: The following packages have been kept back: firefox-gnome-support update-manager
The system is functioning well, but these 2 packages just linger as I process probably hundreds of lucid upgraded packages.
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May 4, 2010
How did it work out? What model machine are you using?
Just wanted to get some idea of stability/functionality.
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May 16, 2010
I tried to upgrade ubuntu from 9.10 to 10.04. It is almost complete downloading packages,but i get this error:Failed to fetch http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/poo...untu2_i386.deb The HTTP server sent an invalid Content-Range header [IP: 91.189.88.30 80]I tried to change from main server to US server, but I still get this error.
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Jun 20, 2011
I use joomla and it only works with php5.2
I keep having to downgrade because ubuntu tried to upgrade to php5.3 everytime I try to upgrade something.
For instance, I just upgraded wine and didnt notice php5.3 in there as a dependancy, so now have to downgrade AGAIN!
Is there a way to upgrade wine without upgrading php as well?
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Jan 18, 2010
I am begining on Ubuntu Server Management I would like to receive your on this doubt In order to have my Ubuntu Server up to date and with the last security patches, is it enough to do:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade?
If not, please where I can find an easy guide in order to keep or mantain my server OK? Also, what are the risks when we do: sudo apt-get dist-upgrade?
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May 9, 2010
doing an upgrade from 10.4 to 10.4 LTS and got this error:
Could Not Calculate Upgrade
An unresolvable problem occurred while calculating the upgrade:The package 'skype' is marked for removal but it is in the removal blacklist.
This can be caused by:
* Upgrading to a pre-release version of Ubuntu
* Running the current pre-release version of Ubuntu
* Unofficial software packages not provided by Ubuntu
If none of this applies, then please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade/ in the bug report.
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Oct 13, 2010
When I tried to upgrade to Ubuntu 10.10 using commandsudo apt-get dist-upgrade the following error is thrown:Setting up netbase (4.35ubuntu3) Installing new version of config file /etc/services.
[Code]...
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Nov 14, 2010
I am trying to upgrade from 10.4 to 10.10. I have never had a problem upgrading before with the Update Manager. Now I get an error message when using the Update Manager. The message says, "Could not calculate the upgrade". See screenshots. I also checked the package manager for broken packages and came up with nothing.
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Mar 14, 2011
I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 and 2.6.35-27-generic. When I run the Upgrade Manager, the 'Distribution Upgrade' window pops up and in bold letters reads 'Running partial upgrade'.
The next line reads '>Preparing to upgrade' and sits there. Mean while, the process begins to perform a great deal of constant hard drive activity. The window's horizontal activity bar reads 'Calculating the changes' at the bottom of the 'Distribution Upgrade' window.
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May 1, 2011
Using Lubuntu 10.10. I uninstalled Apache Server (it was once installed). But the update manager is cites many new Apache updates that I need. But again Apache is not installed anymore. Synaptic says it's not installed. I have a checker for orphaned packages it says nothing about Apache. Why does the updater say this? Maybe there's a "residue" of Apache somewhere?
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Feb 26, 2010
I have searched various forums and only found advice in the most complicated of cases such as dual boots and multiple hard drives.
I have a simpler question.
Currently I have a Dell GX280 with an ATi graphics card which I am using as a media centre. I will soon be moving the hard drive this to an NVIDIA Ion Atom based system. Can I just move the hard drive? Should I uninstall the ATi graphics first?
Anything else I should do?
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Mar 24, 2010
I have installed Ubuntu 9.10 Server on a flash based USB memory stick, so I wanted to move /var and /tmp to a partition on a hard drive (one partition with both /var and /tmp and symlinks from / to those). I read this guide here [URL].. but it failed after restarting the server. I then found out that ubuntu must have /var/run on the root file system [URL].. so that was why it did not work.
My workaround for this was to create /var and /var/run on the root file system, mount my partition to /var and then symlink /tmp to /var/temp. It now works as I wanted, both /var and /tmp on the same partition. But is there a better way to solve this? Can there be any problems with /tmp->/var/temp?
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Jul 9, 2010
I'd like to move Ubuntu to my internal HDD. It is 500GB. Currently, only XP is on there. I'd like to divide the partition in two. That way I've got 250GB for each OS and then my additional 250GB external.
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Aug 24, 2010
I thought the system was supposed to get through the early stages of booting without /usr so I moved it to a filesystem on my zfs-fuse pool, and created a symlink from /usr to /media/zfs/usr
On reboot it would not boot. Hitting esc to see the messages showed network-manager, avahi-daemon, and squid all failing to start (the first two before the ZFS mount success message came up, the other one after). The system was doing nothing.
Somehow, however, the system was still able to boot into the root shell of recovery mode, which I used to out /usr back on the main ext4 partition and now it's booting fine.
Should this be something I'm able to do? Are there specific parts of /usr I need to leave? Should I try to figure out how to make ZFS mounts happen even sooner than whatever the zfs-fuse package defaults to?
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Nov 25, 2010
I have the same problem. Any activity such as burning a disk or downloading a file if the mouse doesn't move the screen freezes and the activity stops maybe I should go back to 10.04 as it seemed to be more stable? Anyone else having the same bug?
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Dec 24, 2010
I have Ubuntu 10.04 LTS installed and have discovered that menu.lst has gone with grub2 and I now have to do something incomprehensible in grub.dI have dual boot with XP and I want to put Windows XP as the default and first boot option (not the last as it is now).
Could someone be so kind as to show me a complete idiot's step-by-step guide of how to move XP to the first in the list.Ubuntu will not connect to the Internet. It always did before Lucid Lynx but not now - See:URL...My easy option is to remove Ubuntu altogether but having used it extensively since Hardy Heron (I think) I live in the faint hope that it will once again become a shining beacon of excellence it once was and not just a waste of space on my hard drive.
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Mar 16, 2011
I'm running Ubunutu 10.10 (64-bit) and used the Synaptic package manager to install CompizConfig Settings Manager a few months ago, thus enabling lots of shiny window manager effects. I haven't touched these settings for months, but within the last few weeks I have noticed that I can no longer reposition any windows. This may have happened after applying some updates.I can still maximise and minimise windows, but I cannot move any of them - dragging the title bar has no effect whatsoever. How can I make my windows movable once more?
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Mar 12, 2011
I have a laptop with an 80GB SSD and 500GB HDD. I currently have Windows installed on the SSD, and a 400GB data partition for Windows on the HDD. I set aside 100GB on the HDD to try out Ubuntu, and I'd like to make it my primary OS and switch it over to the (much) faster SSD.
How could I go about getting my Ubuntu setup moved over to the SSD? I have a 120GB USB hard drive I can use if necessary for getting through it.
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Jan 2, 2010
How do I move a custom theme from a 7.10 distro on my hardrive to the 9.10 distro on the same hardrive? It's probably easy. I want to remove the 7.10 version but don't want to lose a custom theme I put together.
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Jan 9, 2010
Exactly how do I move Thunderbird emails, settings, contacts from computer A to computer B?
What folders do I copy and move?
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