Ubuntu Reinstalled

I have finally got round to reinstalling Ubuntu to my new WD 250GB SATA hdd, I think I have pretty much got all of my applications installed that I had before, and all of my files as i just had to copy them over from my old installation and I made copy's of /etc and lists of packages from dpkg.

I now have a fresh install of Ubuntu with Kbuntu and Ubuntu Studio extra packages, the only thing that is wrong is my Usplash displays normal ubuntu theme on start-up and kbuntu theme on shutdown, I want it all to be Ubuntu Studio! And my suspend works finally, but I still need to get hibernate to work. Once I have done that I have 2 new life CD's SystemRescueCD and Clonezilla, I have tried the former and I will use the second to back up my root partition after I have got all my apps and stuff finally working flawlessly, then I will use Time Vault or some versioning software to back up /home.

P.S. Please remind me to Post about my BIOS update that nearly went wrong!

ubuntu hardy beta - 3 installs in one morning

The HDD came w0.ot :D

I put Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy LTS Beta onto it. That's what i'm running now. Oh and btw, there seems to be a little bug in the partitioner of the hardy beta installer - i tried partitioning keeping a older partition intact (result of breaking my system within 5 minutes and having to reinstall xD). It seemed to install fine, but when i tried booting into the system my machine kernel panicked just after the 'Starting up' message. I think it was trying to load / as a block device - and obviously failing - I can't remember exactly what it said though, after 'Kernel panic - not syncing:'. One more reinstall later (that's 3 clean installs in one morning lol) and here I am - with a perfectly functioning install of Ubuntu Hardy beta on a 160GB HDD - yay! :D

HDD upgrade

OK I've finally gotten round to getting a new HDD for my Linux box...it should be coming next Tuesday (15 april 2008) at the very latest (it's already been dispatched). Here's the specs:

Western Digital Caviar
160GB
8MB cache
ATA 100
8.9ms average seek time
2ms track-to-track seek time
7200 RPM
rated 50,000 Start / Stop Cycles
3.5" form factor
3 year warranty

I would've got Serial-ATA, but my motherboard's way too stone-age for that...the good news is: it cost me £35 with VAT+postage. Yippee! :) i would really reccomend the seller (novatech.co.uk) for it's low prices.