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Re: [LUG] re-install

 

Simon Waters wrote:
> Paul Sutton wrote:
>> Can i re-install ubuntu without reformatting the hard drive its on,
> 
> Yes
> 
>> so in effect a working config replaces what ever is broken.
> 
> That wouldn't seem to offer any advantage over formatting and
> reinstalling to me.
> 
>> either that if I reinstall fully, i.e format the drive that its
>> installed to, what will happen to stuff like the gpg configuration
>> (/home is not on a different partition),  I am guessing all this will be
>> preserved,  including how thunderbird is set up, to use enigmail.
> 
> Backup /home first as a minimum.
> 
> But I think installing over should be fine in that regard.
> 
>> reinstal + formatting is a last resort,  but I am really stuck with
>> getting flash drives etc to simply auto mount and display on the desktop
>> once mounted.
> 
> It isn't a complicated process, although it had changed a fair bit
> between versions of GNOME/KDE and Linux, mostly with the layer that
> presents the hardware to the desktop being rewritten over time.
> 
> If it isn't working in GNOME or KDE, I'd suggest either:
> 
>  The hotplugging isn't working - usually reading kern.log is enough.
> 
>  Something else is interfering with the mount.
> 
>  gnome-volume-manager isn't installed

or somethings has been removed taking that with it,  just had a look
through synaptic and its not installed so I am doing that now.
> 
> Did you fiddle with /etc/fstab or other automount config files?
> 

fstab was re-written from the original, when Neil Stone was helping me
move /home to a new patition,

However see above

> Did you fiddle with hardware layer, or kernel modules?
> 


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