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UBUNTU TEST
I finally got Infra Recorder to cooperate with my CD/DVD burner. I am now posting to LJ via FireFox, from Ubuntu Live, running from DVD.
My second monitor is NOT happy, and is currently turned off to avoid the Dance of the Angry ASCII.
Tasks To Do:
*(Yes, it would be much simpler to have all three drives running at once, but I don't have any spare IDE connections... unless I yank out my old, half-functional, never-used CD-RW drive. And trying to figure out Master/Slave settings between THREE drives is scary.)
My second monitor is NOT happy, and is currently turned off to avoid the Dance of the Angry ASCII.
Tasks To Do:
- Figure out how to get my FireFox and Thunderbird config data from the Windows versions to the Linubuntunix versions. I have tons of bookmarks and eight friggin' email accounts, and redoing even the latter by hand would be traumatic.
- Figure out if Ubuntu is set up for a dual-boot install.
- Install Ubuntu on my old 80 GB "Data" drive for a "Test Run", using the dual-boot option and leaving the even older 20GB "OS and App" drive untouched.
- Make sure I can get the nVidia drivers up and running properly, with both monitors.
- Remove the 80 GB drive, and install the Shiny New 320 GB drive.
- Install Ubuntu with Dual-Boot option on the 320 GB. The "Second Boot" will be the 20 GB Windows XP drive. This is the "emergency exit".
- Temporarily unplug the 20 GB drive from the CD controller and power. Plug in the old 80 GB. Transfer all data into an "Archive" directory.*
- Buhbye, 80 Gig. You've served me well.
- Yank out the old nVidia card, install the 7600 GT, and see if the Linux drivers work on this hardware combination when the Windows drivers wouldn't.
- If so... buhbye, 20 Gig. Buhbye, Windoze.
And if Ubuntu is up, running and stable at this stage...
*(Yes, it would be much simpler to have all three drives running at once, but I don't have any spare IDE connections... unless I yank out my old, half-functional, never-used CD-RW drive. And trying to figure out Master/Slave settings between THREE drives is scary.)
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you can grab the info to copy over, e.g.
C:\Documents and Settings\scott.DRAGONS\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\805xkmdu.default\bookmarks.html
cookies.txt and some other goodies.
You can then copy these files into your Linux home directory, e.g. ./mozilla/firefox/spc1hja9.default/ (the last bit is randoml string created when you start ff the first time)
Tbird has a similar structure.
Not sure how to migrate passwords though.