Ubuntu Installation :: Move From Fedora 12 To 10.04?
Aug 8, 2010
I have Fedora 12 on a laptop and I want to move to Ubuntu 10.04 without losing anything. How do I do this? I find that Ubuntu is easier to use day in and day out on my other laptop than Fedora 12 is. There seems to be more support and help on Ubuntu as well. Thanks you for the help. I know I can backup files I want to keep to an external drive and then restore them in Ubunto, but is there anything else I need to know? Will Ubuntu see the Fedora 12 install and import items like it does from Windows?
I am an actual openSUSE 11.2 user and i would like to switch to Fedora (probably 12).Now i have couple of questions i need someone answer for me please (they are quite crucial):
1. The possibility to unlock the luks crypt encrypted partition with a file, actually i have two important partitions with data on it (/home and stuff) which i unlock with a file on a pendrive, the /etc/fstab contains the by-id entry for the partition on the pendrive to unlock the /home and stuff partitions while /etc/crypttab has it like that:
cr_sdd1 something_blabla /media/disk/key luks
And it works. Now how would it look like in Fedora? I remember last time i tried it it works a bit different.
2. What about additional repositories (like KDE Beta or Factory, something like Packman in SUSE), how it looks like to subscribe to them. (rpmfusion is the right way for codecs etc. right?)
3. nVidia drivers, i have the 8800GT graphics card and i always installed it "the hard way" (which is in fact easy) but i remember there might be some problems with that in Fedora? How does it look like to install the drivers from the cli?
4. Installing applications, now that is a tough one, last time i wanted to install kate (word editor) i had to install whole group of applications since i couldn't install it "separately" is it true or did i do something wrong? And why PackageKit sucks big time? I remember trying to find a package kate in Fedora but it didn't succeed and had to install kde-sdk or something.
5. I love that i can have SElinux in Fedora what makes me a lot happier (i'm a bit paranoid and i like to keep my box secure even though it's linux ) How mature is that for desktop use?
6. Nouveau state, how does it work, does it stay on all the time or is it that if there are the closed drivers it switches to them after the initial booting?
7. Is there any graphical application to manage the applications in Fedora (except PackageKit because it sucks big time). I really like yum which is very friendly but is there any graphical front-end to this maybe?
I did preupgrade to move from Fedora 14 to 15. Everything went fine until the end when I got the error message: Insufficient disk space, 0 M on boot.
I guess I would have expected the "preupgrade" software to have checked this before doing the install. But anyway, is there a way to get past this? If not, is there a way to get back to 14 without wiping the disk (obviously not my intent since I went the upgrade route).
I have just spent dome time using gparted to sort out my partitions. I have a vista partition, a fedora one and a big chunk of unallocated space I wish to use as my data drive.
I want to move my ~ folder to the new partition and have windows/vista access the folder and write to the Documents, Downloads folders etc.
What is the best format to use?
Also I plan to start backing up my partitions to a server, for instance using g4l to save a linux image (maby a windose one too). Is there any benifit in keeping all the hidden files (ones starting with period '.') i.e moving the whole ~ folder or would I be best off leaving the ~ dir and moving the folders I know i use such as ~/Downloads, ~/Documents etc?
And how should i preform the move of all these files? 'mv'? do i need to add any special options?
I downloaded the Fedora 11 KDE livecd, installed it, and after the reboot when I get to that "firstboot" screen, I can't move the mouse, the keyboard doesn't work, I have to hold down the power button to turn off the computer.
i have installed fedora 14 with so many libraries ,development tools installed on my pc but i usually have to present some projects which can run on my system .........and can't be executed or compiled due to absence of libraries and tools there so, i there some way to so that i can use this current installation on my hard drive of my pc to some external media like external hard disk and plug and use that installation anywhere on any system..
I want to install Ubuntu 10.04 to another machine alongside that other machine's XP. I know I could just run the install disc; but I'd like to take what changes I've made to Ubuntu along with it - for instance, TrueCrypt, Simple Backup, AdobeReader 3 (I think that's an addition), K3b, MuseScore, and some other applications I've added along the way. Also, I went thru some Terminal commands to get Brasero to copy CD's recently and would like to avoid doing that again.
However the threads I read, were all rather inconclusive, and with lots of caveats, leading me to the conclusion, that the best option might be the tedious one, of completely rebuilding my config, which would be a most unwelcome chore, so before I take that leap, I would ask here, if some relatively straightforward and failsafe method has been identified?
Some specifics: The installation functions as my lanServer, and has been modified with thirdparty-repositories and probably also directly downloaded debs, also some packages have been compiled from cvs.
Some of the services it provides are: dns, dhcp, ssh, ftp, http(ssl), blog, caldav, mldonkey, vnc, vpn (and appleshare in disorder). Probably some I forgot.
The old and the new hardware are quite similar, moving from Dell Latitude D600 to D610, so I wonder if it would be possible to simply boot the new hardware from the old installation?
Is there a way to reinvoke hardware-recognition?
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The RAM will double to 1 GB.
System hostnamedell Operating systemUbuntu Linux 10.04 Webmin version1.510 Time on systemThu Aug 12 10:06:04 2010 Kernel and CPULinux 2.6.32-24-generic on i686 Processor informationIntel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.60GHz, 1 cores System uptime1 days, 10 hours, 03 minutes Running processes176 CPU load averages0.09 (1 min) 0.09 (5 mins) 0.09 (15 mins) CPU usage1% user, 2% kernel, 0% IO, 97% idle Real memory497.08 MB total, 188.85 MB used
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?
I recently installed Ubuntu Lucid Lynx for a friend; for non-technical reasons, the installation had to be to a USB drive instead of writing to the internal hard disk. After reading some online literature on the subject recently, I suspect that the GRUB may be on the internal hard disk MBR instead of the MBR for my USB drive. How can I move the GRUB to another MBR without completely reinstalling it?
I have Ubuntu installed on my 1st HD partition and working pretty much the way I like. I need to convert this to a dual-boot system with Windows. Windows really wants to be on the first partition on the first drive, so I think I need to move Ubuntu to the 3rd partition, behind the swap partition.I could do a complete reinstall but that would take forever. Is it reasonable to just copy the present /dev/sd0a partition to /dev/sd0c, install Windows, then run the Ubuntu CD to reinstall GRUB?
I guess I could just use dd for this but it's been so long that I've forgotten the correct method for moving a whole filesystem.
I've been landed with a disk from a friend whose machine we've never managed to get into the BIOS of and tweak the boot order to include a CD drive.
I pulled the disk from my own system and ran a from-scratch install on this shiny blank disk with numerous of the tweaks I like and he'll need. (Getting pleased with how the time to usable is still dropping doing an install).
What I'm concerned about is sticking this disk in his machine and using it. I've gone with the sort-of generic 32-bit base even though both his machine and mine are Athlons. However, he's a musician and has some rather nice audio kit - as well as, I suspect, different video hardware.
Am I likely to hit noticeable problems? Is there some script I can arm myself with to rescan available hardware and update config, or can someone give a list of packages to completely remove then reinstall via the recovery boot?
I know the latter option may well cause some dependency problems that see stuff I've already installed lost - I can cope with that if I can get the GUI running smoothly.
The HDD on which I currently have my Ubuntu partition(s) (as well as a Windows partition) is dying on me (non-zero bad sector count, with warning pop-ups from Ubuntu). I have already ordered a replacement hard drive*, but I was wondering if there is a simple way to transfer the contents of my current hard drive to my new hard drive in such a way that the new one will be a fully functional replacement (e.g. so that everything will boot and run properly on the new hard drive). Which is a different size (bigger) than the current drive.
For some reason in the 10.10 installer (I'm on a liveusb right now) I can't move forward. I'm in the Who are You? section. It just says "ready when you are" at the bottom though I can't move forward. I've typed in all the fields, what's wrong?I tried going back a few times and going forward but that doesn't help.
I want to move my home directory to a separate partition so I can install the new versions of Ubuntu without losing my data. And while I'm at it, what other important directories should I move to separate partitions? And how do I do it? I'm guessing that the /boot directory should also be moved to its own partition too, yes? Because it has the GRUB in it, and if I removed Ubuntu to make way for a newer version of Ubuntu, I'll just get an error because the computer can't find the GRUB that doesn't exist anymore, right? And also, if I move those important yet-to-be-listed directories to their own separate partitions, how large should those partitions be?
I don't want to miss out on the upcoming Lucid Lynx (If it will work in the first place, of course ) By the way, I have an Ubuntu-Windows XP dual-boot system. I'll attach a screenshot of my partition table from GPartEd. You can see that I have about 300 GB. The largest partition is Ubuntu.
I am running Ubuntu Studio 9.10 on Microsoft Virtual PC. After using it a lot, I have decided to move to a real machine. The thing is, I don't have the time to reinstall ubuntu and all the programs and move my docs.So i wanted to copy/move the content of my virtual HDD to put it on a real one. But when I try copying th e OS, it says that i don't have permission to do that. What can I do?
I have a newly built desktop with not disk drive yet. I just put Ubuntu 9.10 onto a flash drive successfully and booted it onto my desktop. It boots up the Installer boot menu and asks me if i want to run Ubuntu from the USB or Save it to hard drive. I select save to hard drive but when i turn the pc off and take out the flashdrive Ubuntu does not stay on the machine?
My boot disk is failing! I am a little nervous, so I'd like to have extra eyes on this so that I don't fubar it.
My setup is as follows, with WinXP and Ubuntu living on completely separate drives:
The boot disk (WinXP with grub2 on MBR) is failing. I need to replace it, pronto.
Do I need to get any data from the MBR on the failing disk before removing it?
Should I make the Karmic disk bootable and install grub on it before removing the failing boot disk?
Once I have Windows (re)installed on a new disc (which will still be /dev/sda) I want to install GRUB2 to its MBR and re-instate the old (current) boot options. How should I do this?
As mentioned here I am planning on installing with encryption. This involves using LVM in the partition scheme.
I am following this guide here which uses Mandriva to do the installation. [url]
However, I notice that GParted doesn't seem to have any support for LVM, which is going to be a pain in the rear if I subsequently try to add Ubuntu to the Mandriva boot setup.
The problem I have with DiskDrake (Mandrivas partition editor) is that it only seems to be able to put partitions at the beginning of the drive and it doesn't seem to be able to move partitions. e.g. if I want to create a new partition at the end for swap and leave some unallocated space in the middle for my future Ubuntu installation I am stuck. GParted allows me to create at the end or effectively move it by resizing the beginning and end of the partition.
DiskDrake allows me to create and edit LVM partitions.
Is there perhaps another partition editor that does both? Or maybe a development version of one that does it? Or some option I am missing?
I have installed ubuntu desktop on my computer using wubi and its running great but I am about to get a new computer and I dont want to reinstall, reconfig and setup everything again.. the steps of moving my wubi install to the new computer
I been using ubuntu wubi on my gateway notebook for a few months now and I am ready to clean windows all my computer and only use ubuntu. the question is do I have to reinstall everything from the ground up?? can someone please give me some tips! it will take me weeks to setup everything again
I have upgraded my sons PC and the new Mother Board won't take the original IDE drive (SATA Only) so I am left with a situation where I have an IDE drive with an Ubuntu 10.10 system installed that I need to copy over to my sons shiny new upgraded PC.After a lot of searching around I found these instructions here URL... and set about the following actions:
-I installed Ubuntu 10.10 from a live CD on the system -I ran a tar command to back up the old HDD (as per instructions in the above link) -I copied the resulting tgz file accross to the new HDD via the network
Then I followed the instructions to restore the Ubuntu installation (But not re creating the folders I ommitted as they were already there on the new HDD after the installation) and all seemed to work well until I rebooted the new PC.I'm now getting an alert on boot up stating. ALERT! dev/disk/by-uuid does not exist message and I'm being dropped into a shell.The UUID specified is that of the original HDD not the new one and I would like some advice on how best to proceed from here. I'm assuming that if I can fix this issue all will be good but I'm left wondering if the new hardware will be detected properly.
Can one install Linux on a dedicated hard disk on one machine, then move that disk to another machine and boot from it? I know Windows won't allow you to do that, but can it be done with Linux?
I saw a similar thrad, but can't find it anymore. Anyhow it was not resolved. So I take the liberty to post this in a new thread: I have installed ubuntu 9.10 on a laptop in dual boot configuration (other OS is WinXP). grub starts and I can hit enter to boot Ubuntu. However as soon as I use an arrow key to move downwards in the menu, grub hangs. In this condition I cannot boot any other OS, not even the "safe" version of Ubuntu.
Any idea what is the cause of this? It is a fresh installation and I read in the other thread that reinstalling grub or re-running grub-update had no positive effect. Does anone know how I can install grub 0.97 ? Where do I find it?
I have windows 7 installed in my internal laptop hard disk and I have installed Ubuntu 9.10 "the Karmic Koala - released in October 2009 and supported until April 2011", on my external hard disk. The problem I am facing is that the GRUB have been installed on the hard disk, for that reason if my laptop have restarted I need the hard disk to be attached to it to load the GRUB and to log in to windows. I need guidance in moving the GRUB to my internal hard disk or return the windows boot loader in charge, so I can boot my windows without the hard disk.
