4 Easy Step Upgrade to Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex 8.10
Well, Finally after think many times and days I decide to upgrade my Ubuntu Linux Hardy Heron 8.04 to Ubuntu Linux Intrepid Ibex 8.10. By default Ubuntu Linux 8.04 LTS will not offer a upgrade to 8.10. This is because the 8.04 LTS version is a long term support release and 8.10 is a regular release. Upgrades from 8.04 LTS to 8.10 are fully supported, of course, and easy to enable. Before you upgrade, better you read the upgrade notes and release notes in here and here. Please read carefully before do upgrade especially for the production desktop or server. Many ways to upgrade to Ubuntu 8.10. Like stated on the Ubuntu website, upgrade could be done by several ways [...]
5 Things to Do Before Upgrade to Ubuntu Linux Intrepid
I have planned to upgrade my Ubuntu Linux Hardy Heron to Ubuntu Linux Intrepid Ibex. But before I do upgrade activity, I need to do some activities to ensure upgrade activity will smooth and all data in my laptop secure. The worst case scenario is clean install the acer aspire laptop with Ubuntu Linux Intrepid Ibex. Thean set-up the laptop with new Ubuntu to fit with my needs and make sure all hardware on the laptop working properly like before. So, let’s make a short list before upgrade the ubuntu. 1. Back-up data Data is important. All data in my laptop have been collected many months and take hundreds hours download from internet. I’ll back-up data to other media such [...]
Installing Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron on Acer Aspire 3684NWXMi
Tak terasa sudah hampir setahun menggunakan Ubuntu 7.04 feisty fawn di laptop ini. Sudah banyak pekerjaan yang diselesaikan menggunakan laptop acer tersebut. Dan tentu saja sudah banyak file di direktory /home yang sangat berharga. Baik itu file konfigurasi, photo-2 kenangan ataupun iso linux dengan berbagai macam distro. Dengan begitu banyak file di direktori /home sangat rentan kalau sebelumnya direktori tersebut berada menjadi 1 di direktori root. Karena kalau kebiasaan ngoprek timbul, maka bisa-2 file di direktori /home akan tertimpa -overwrite- dan itu menjadi sebuah yang sangat menyedihkan. Waktu bergulir, banyak panggilan sana-sini dan akhirnya rencana untuk mengubah penempatan direktori /home berdiri sendiri kesampain juga saat ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 release. Tak lupa, seperti janji sebelumnya untuk si Hardy ini akan [...]
How to Enable and Disable Ubuntu Root Password
Ubuntu is one of the few Linux distributions out there that will not enable the root account. If you want to do something with root permission on the console you have to type sudo before the command. sudo” means superuser do. “sudo” will prompt for “Password:”. Please specify user password As you have noticed during the Ubuntu installation there was no question about the root password, as you might have been used to see during other Linux distribution installation process. Because of this your root account is inactive.
