Submitted by rich_c on December 13, 2011 - 4:22am
Over the course of last weekend, I upgraded our family main PC from Mepis 8 to Mepis 11. As per a thread I started on the forums http://forum.mepiscommunity.org/viewtopic.php?f=84&t=30667, I had an initial hoop to jump through in that I needed a grub ‘cheat code’ to get the live DVD to boot. Once I’d researched the solution to that issue and got into the demo desktop session, the installation itself was typically unremarkable. What I want to go into in this post is the method I used to migrate home directories, or at least the actual useful data. Obviously, a direct copy of a lot of the config files found in /home/$USER* would be undesirable due to the migration from KDE3 to KDE4 that M8 -> M11 entails.
Submitted by rich_c on September 3, 2011 - 4:05am
Further to my last post about my new netbook, I thought I'd do a little how-to in case anyone might find it useful. Here goes!
Submitted by rich_c on August 25, 2011 - 3:23pm
I just got a new HP Mini 110-3612. Clearly I wasn't going to put up with Windows 7 Starter running on it. So, the first time I powered it on, I made sure a USB stick was plugged in with Mepis 11 installed courtesy of Unetbootin. Mepis 11 installed perfectly, everything including the wireless adaptor worked out of the box. Now, I'm looking forward to many productive hours with my shiny new toy. :-D
Submitted by rich_c on February 28, 2011 - 10:27pm
If you want to run older hardware, it's better to start with antiX and build up what you want rather than start with Mepis and hack bits out!
Submitted by rich_c on January 4, 2011 - 2:51pm
My Mepis test box is in a bit of a mess at the moment! Pretty certainly due to it’s very nature as a test box and the way I’ve been abusing it… For that reason, I’m not inclined to post this in the forums asking for advice.
