http://www.jonamerica.com/technology/learn-from-your-mistakes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=learn-from-your-mistakes Technology and Photography Blog by Jonathan Eggers Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:25:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.jonamerica.com/technology/learn-from-your-mistakes/#comment-397 Jonathan Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:05:49 +0000 http://www.jonamerica.com/?p=880#comment-397 Thanks for the suggestion. I'll have to look into custom install CDs a bit more. Thanks for the suggestion. I’ll have to look into custom install CDs a bit more.

]]> http://www.jonamerica.com/technology/learn-from-your-mistakes/#comment-1154 Jonathan Eggers Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:05:00 +0000 http://www.jonamerica.com/?p=880#comment-1154 Thanks for the suggestion. I'll have to look into custom install CDs a bit more. Thanks for the suggestion. I’ll have to look into custom install CDs a bit more.

]]> http://www.jonamerica.com/technology/learn-from-your-mistakes/#comment-395 Sylar626 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:00:32 +0000 http://www.jonamerica.com/?p=880#comment-395 One other thing that you should consider since you are new to using ubuntu is a custom installation CD, personally I have one made for ubuntu 8.04 and beyond(part of this is because I actually had to manually create the drivers for some of my hardware peripherals which can get a bit tedious, as well as a few custom commands that I saved to the /bin folder. The only problem with the custom install is your /home will not be there, but as long as you have a backup(or a separate partition as you stated) you will be fine. One other thing that you should consider since you are new to using ubuntu is a custom installation CD, personally I have one made for ubuntu 8.04 and beyond(part of this is because I actually had to manually create the drivers for some of my hardware peripherals which can get a bit tedious, as well as a few custom commands that I saved to the /bin folder. The only problem with the custom install is your /home will not be there, but as long as you have a backup(or a separate partition as you stated) you will be fine.

]]> http://www.jonamerica.com/technology/learn-from-your-mistakes/#comment-1153 Sylar626 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:00:00 +0000 http://www.jonamerica.com/?p=880#comment-1153 One other thing that you should consider since you are new to using ubuntu is a custom installation CD, personally I have one made for ubuntu 8.04 and beyond(part of this is because I actually had to manually create the drivers for some of my hardware peripherals which can get a bit tedious, as well as a few custom commands that I saved to the /bin folder. The only problem with the custom install is your /home will not be there, but as long as you have a backup(or a separate partition as you stated) you will be fine. One other thing that you should consider since you are new to using ubuntu is a custom installation CD, personally I have one made for ubuntu 8.04 and beyond(part of this is because I actually had to manually create the drivers for some of my hardware peripherals which can get a bit tedious, as well as a few custom commands that I saved to the /bin folder. The only problem with the custom install is your /home will not be there, but as long as you have a backup(or a separate partition as you stated) you will be fine.

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