Ubuntu Feisty Fawn 7.04 - My Initial Installation
I just completed my initial installation of Ubuntu Feisty Fawn 7.04. I used the standard i386 Live CD desktop installer (ubuntu-7.04-desktop-i386.iso).
The only thing that I do which is a little different than a standard installation is I keep my /home directory on its own partition. The reason I do this is because all of my configurations and personal files are in my HOME folder, and keeping it on its own partition allows me to reinstall Linux whenever I want to (rarely) with minimal extra file backup needed beforehand.
I was running Ubuntu Edgy prior to this installation of Ubuntu Feisty. I have two user accounts set up on this machine. I prefer to do fresh installs of new versions of the OS as opposed to using APT to upgrade the OS. I also like to have my user account recreated, and then import my files and settings from my old home folder as needed. So, in order to get my existing home folders out of the way for the new installation (but also keep the existing files intact), I opened Gnome Terminal and did the following:
$ cd /home
$ sudo mv <USER1> <USER1>.old
$ sudo mv <USER2> <USER2>.old
I replaced <USER1> with my username and replaced <USER2> with my wife’s username. Once I finished executing those commands, I rebooted the machine and booted off of the Ubuntu 7.04 Live CD installer.
After the machine finished booting from the CD, I started the installer via the shortcut on the desktop. I went through each screen entering the appropriate information at the prompts (language, my name, my username, etc). I did a typical install up until the part of the installation that handles partitioning the hard drive. I have a 250 GB hard drive, my partitions are set up like this:
/ 23622 MB
swap 2146 MB
/home 203748 MB
free 21476 MB
I keep about 20 GB of free space on the drive, just in case I ever need to dual boot with another operation system.
During the install, I set the mountpoint of the first partition to ‘/’ and told it to format this partition. The ’swap’ partition was already set to swap and ready to go. I set the mount point on the third partition to ‘/home’ and was sure to tell it NOT to format this partion (so I wouldn’t lose my old home folders that I renamed).
From this point, I continued through the rest of the installation screens normally. The Live CD installer is nice because you can play games like Free Cell while your installation is completing (if you don’t have anything better to do).
The installation completed without any hitches. I rebooted my computer and logged into my new Ubuntu Feisty Fawn 7.04 installation. I then proceeded to move some of my backed-up files and configurations from my old folder into my new folder like this:
$ cd /home/<USER1>.old/
$ mv <folder1> <folder2> <folder3> ../<USER1>/
(replaced <USER1> with my username)
So, that’s where I stand right now. The repositories are very slow right now because so many people are installing Ubuntu 7.04 like I am, creating a heavy load on the servers. That being said, I may wait a bit before I move on to my next step of installing my applications, codecs, etc. My next post will detail how I go about installing codecs for MP3, DVD capability, as well as applications that I commonly use.
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i am a freshman of ubuntu, and i read this document from a to z.
i want to creat a ubuntu-7.04-desktop i386 Live CD, but not very well. can you send me a ubuntu-7.04-desktop i386 Live CD you created. thank you very much!
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