[aka Brett]

I think I can get md 20 20 for about 3 bucks
We could drink a couple bottles....everyone will forget who the bartender was the next day

[valis]

yup; they'd forget where the hell they lived on that crap.

formaldehyde will do weird things to your system. Hence the '20/20' moniker. Screws up your eyesight faster than you can say 'vomit'.

[aka Brett]

I remember back in the day I was getting the stuff 1.89 a fifth at convenience store prices.I would remember about a fourth of the bottle being left and that was it...had no idea when and where i bought the second bottle about a third left ..laying in the floorboard...it needs to be outlawed.

[valis]

okay, got all the space in the world now.

How do I save my profile?

[leroys1000]

If you did a full install on your computer,all changes will be
saved automatically for your user account.

[aka Brett]

Originally Posted by valis

okay, got all the space in the world now.

How do I save my profile?

I am a rookie lol
not sure what you are wanting to accomplish.

[valis]

Originally Posted by leroys1000

If you did a full install on your computer,all changes will be
saved automatically for your user account.

which brings me to questin deax:

how,were I to so desire, delete the profile yet keep the OS onboard?

and don't forget, Brett's buying.

v

[aka Brett]

trying to break it so soon?

[valis]

easiest way to learn.

signing off here in a bit, but taking this to work for my backup rig. should be interesting.

[aka Brett]

It definitely has potential...back when i was using xp..i would boot to ubuntu quite a bit.

Vista sort of spoiled me with instant search......I could probably do the same thing with ubuntu if i took the time to find it
My other laptop... Ubuntu and the touchpad worked great
I have an alps touchpad on this one...sucks even in windows..but i did find a decent driver for it finally
If i could find a good driver for my alps for ubuntu...i would be more inclined to use it

[RootbeaR]

Originally Posted by valis

this is exactly what I was looking for.

have to give this a crack. Pretty sure you guys will be seeing some questions about ubuntu coming up shortly.

Puppy is set up like that ready to go. Just tell it with the options that is what you want to do.

It can/will make a folder on HD, no partitioning, or to USB stick.

[leroys1000]

Originally Posted by valis

which brings me to questin deax:

how,were I to so desire, delete the profile yet keep the OS onboard?

and don't forget, Brett's buying.

v

I would think you could go to administration/users and create a new
user then delete the old one.

[lotuseclat79]

Originally Posted by valis

okay, got ubuntu installed as a full OS on a spare rig. coupla questions:

1. How can I save all changes I make? I have a highly tweaked firefox, but now we don't have to worry about saving it to usb key. Well, we do, but dunno how much space that will take.

2. Went to install all the updates, not enough space. No recycle bin. Where's it hiding?

3. how can I keep my profile on this HD? Or is that even necessary? as it's a harrd install, will it remember it automatically?

thanks, guys, for all the help. Brett will buy you all beers at the local tavern.

Hi valis,

In Ubuntu, run the following command:
$ sudo fdisk -l
or as root
# fdisk -l
to learn the device names/partitions and number of 512-byte blocks and cylinders for all of the hard drives you have connected, but unless you boot up you won't be able to issue the du -s command to tell you the total size of the directory contents (without the details for all the files) you have used.

If you installed Ubuntu on a hard drive and can reboot it, it should have retained all of your changes. If it was a Live CD, then unless you do as I do to create tarballs of the changes (I use scripts to automate this for me, but issue them manually to save my changes on hard drive).

What profile are you talking about? User account or Firefox?

-- Tom

[valis]

tom:

I think because I installed it as the only OS on the system, it will hold all the settings. I installed flash and tweaked firefox a bit last night, and this morning both were still there.

Now to play with it.

[lotuseclat79]

Hi Tim,

In case you have more questions about Ubuntu, here is the User Guide to Jaunty, i.e. Ubuntu 9.04. If you have an earlier release just change the name in the URL.

-- Tom


-- Tom