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Sunday, March 19, 2006

Reinstalling Kubuntu

My data drive had some corruption as regards its file system tree, and i was forced to rebuild it. I figured I'll just reinstall Kubuntu too since I inadverdently installed Ubuntu Desktop, which kinda doubled the applications I have on the menu.

Here are some of the things I did in order to remind myself in case my system crashes again:

  • Make a dos partition writable - the options in fstab for the partition should be: user,exec,rw,umask=000 0 0
  • Get Automatix and install some of the necessary non-free software
  • Install packages used for compiling source code: sudo apt-get install build-essential

I'll add to the list as I walk through the rebuilding of my settings.

Posted by kaliwanagan at 10:40 PM
Edited on: Monday, March 20, 2006 12:13 AM
Categories: OSS / Linux