[Odyssey]

For weeks (has it been months now?) I have been suffering a fairly well-specked core duo with a gig of RAM running Ubuntu 8.04, which over a couple of hours after a reboot, gets slower and more congested requiring frequent re-boots. This is especially noticable in Firefox, whereas Opera and Ephiphany don't seem to suffer so much. Fortunately this machine is in another city and only gets used a few days a month.

So to see if I could do a quick fix, I decided to install 9.10 and was very favourably impressed with the new installer, especially the partitioner, which sems vastly improved over 8.04. It offered a (new to me) option to install 9.10 alongside my existing, which my knee jerk reaction to was, "That's good, If I don't like it, I'll just uninstall it and then try to figure out what's wrong with 8.04"

Unfortunately (probably) I did not think through where the installer was going to get the space, and when I brought it up, it had not found my old /home partition, and about that time it was necessary to depart to return here leaving me unsure of what had happened and now unable to investigate until I get back there.

So here is the first question. What have I done partition-wise (the 8.04 had a swap, system, and home partition; big hdd with lots of room most of which is/was devoted to /home)? I am guessing that 9.10 took the space it needed from /home, and I hope that it took "unused" space. Any ideas?

(I expect that this question might be commented by any linux user, not just Ubuntu users.)

This is going to be a theoretical discussion because I cannot access the other computer from here. But more than theory, because I really want to see what the rest of 9.10 looks like, and am about 98% sure that I want to upgrade this computer as well.

It also has the swap, system, and home partitions the difference being that this computer has another 300 gigs in an unused partition. So the second question is: when I install 9.10 would you recommend that I upgrade over 8.04, or just do a clean install into the existing system partition, or do another "alongside" utilizing part of the unused partition? I like the idea of installing it alongside 8.04 but want to make sure that it sees my existing home partition. Is this just a matter of mounting home in the 9.10?

I want the result to keep my desktop intact with all of the quick launches at the top as they are now.

Thanks in advance.

[leroys1000]

I'm not familiar with the along side installation,unless it runs like a
windows install.
Then it would just create an image file and run form that.

The upgrade runs smoothly except I have an nvidia network
controller and the network would not come back up.

Running these commands in a terminal corrected the problems.
This was an old bug that cropped back up.

su root
enter root password
rmmod forcedeth
modprobe forcedeth msi=0 msix=0
/etc/init.d/networking restart

[jrbuergel]

The newer Linux versions such as Ubuntu 9.10, are now installing with the new ext4 file system as default, which has some issues mounting it from the older ext3 Linux installs. Also the new version of the grub boot loader, ( GRUB 2 ), has just recently come out, and Ubuntu 9.10 may have that, or give you the option for the old legacy grub to install. The new grub does have a few major changes, so just do a google search for more information.

[Odyssey]

Thanks for both