Subj : Contemplations? To : Vince Coen From : Jeff Smith Date : Fri Sep 28 2018 10:42 am Hello Vince, >>>> So, I have resisted upgrading Ubuntu Linux on the BBBS machine >>>> which currently runs Ubuntu 16.10. >>> Test one's that have a LTS policy and releases. >> That was my thought also. Whatever my choice it would a Linux flavor >> with extended support. >> Right now I am either looking at staying with (Actually upgrading to >> the current LTS version of Ubuntu) or installing CentOS on a spare PC >> of similar hardware and testing it prior to running/restoring BBBS >> onto t he machine. >> At the moment I use Linux Mint on the PC that I do my daily desktop >> PC'ing. > My main system has a SSD of 250GB -ish so have a number of partitions set up > as a gpt group. On the PC that I am planning on using I have a 250GB SSD as my boot drive and two 2TB SATA's mounted as my /home and /file partitions > Here I run (very some times) other distros over my current Mageia v6 such as > cetos PCLinux and some other that I have forgotten but all cause me grief so > apart for trying a update for each and a quick test to see of mbse etc works > before moving to the next one in the list I stick to the MGA one. Oddly, CentOS wouldn't install on the PC in question for a couple apparent reasons. One is that the install process couldn't delete the existing logical volumes on the existing HD's. And the second was that CentOS didn't look to have the needed integrated video drivers. But I could install Debian 9, Linux Mint 19.1, or Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS without any problems. At the moment Mint is running on it. > My BBS system and all other user s/w is installed at /home/abc instead of say > /opt (mbse) that way I can swap to another distro with the minimum of issues > having made sure that all distros use the same guds for all users. Mind you > that seems to be the standard these days that all user created accounts start > from 1000 (as against 500),so easy to do. Yeah... Some years ago I started keeping as much as possible in /home/ and keep the /home directory on a separate HD. Then just mount the HD's during distro installation. I haven't gotten to the point of moving BBBS over as of yet. Jeff --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-3 * Origin: Fidoneet: The Ouija Board - Anoka, MN -bbs.ouijabrd.ne\ (1:282/1031) .