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My Dilemma
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MEPIS Rules!   Joined: Sun Mar 02, 2008 11:50 am Posts: 273 Location: Windsor, Ontario Canada Has thanked: 39 times Have thanks: 61 times 
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 Re: My DilemmaI remember upgrading from 8.0 to 8.5 beta (or was it Danum's "cano"?) using the save /home option and that was a little dicey. Going from 8.5 to 11 alpha was a breeze.
_________________ AMD Phenom II X6 1055T Processor, Nvidia GTS 450, LG W2042TQ (1680x1050)/ViewSonic VP191b(1280x1024), Broadcom BCM4306 Wireless, 8GB RAM M11-64, +sid, +KDE SC 4.9.5, liquorix 3.7.0-4 , Nvidia 313.18 
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MEPIS is cool!   Joined: Sat Jun 06, 2009 6:06 am Posts: 877 Location: Bristol, UK Has thanked: 227 times Have thanks: 167 times
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Re: My Dilemma Joany - I would just go ahead and repartition your sda to make space for M11 (and maybe a testing partition as well).
I'm a serial partitioner, and I've just counted up my repartitioning of my old disk 1, which started as a WinXP-only disk. Repartitioned twice before I tried Mepis, and 5 times since. Initially with 2 primary and 2 logical partitions, it has ended up with 10 partitions and is now working less hard as the single disk in Anne's machine. I've used WinXP partition manage, Acronis Disk Director, KDE Partition Manager, DOS fdisk and linux fdisk at various times without problems (except resizing an ntfs partition with a bad block) and I've never lost any data. Just double check every step before you commit. Phil _________________ Asus M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3, Phenom II X2 550 BE (now X3), 8GB. 120GB Corsair SSD, ITB Samsung HDD, Mepis 11.9.70-64. |
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Re: My Dilemma
Shouldn't be necessary. It's not at all difficult to remove the packaged Fx version and install Fx4 from the Moz tarball while retaining all your bookmarks and most all of your extensions. _________________ Asus M4A87TD USB3 AMD 870 Socket AM3 Athlon II X4 630 2.8GHz Quad Core GeForce 9500 GT 1GB PCIe, nVidia TwinView Kingston 2G x 2 1333 DDR3 WD Caviar 500GB x 2 SATA hdd |
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MEPIS Enthusiast  Joined: Wed Jul 12, 2006 5:54 am Posts: 9178 Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma U.S.A. Has thanked: 2714 times Have thanks: 574 times
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Re: My Dilemma I agree. Mozilla will install on almost any debian distribution. It's not tied to KDE 4 at all.
_________________ "There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders." Alan K. Simpson |
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MEPIS is cool!  Joined: Wed Aug 30, 2006 1:44 am Posts: 594 Location: Midway between the Washington State rainforest, ocean and volcanoes Has thanked: 735 times Have thanks: 66 times
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Re: My Dilemma
You're just lucky  that I am on a time restriction for handing our green jellybeans_________________ ...Ostara.................................... minni   ...Mepis 11_64...........................Mepis 11_32 |
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