mdiemer
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Post by mdiemer on Dec 24, 2020 21:55:31 GMT
I got myself a new SSD for Christmas. I am going to put Bodhi 5 on it. I currently have Bodhi 5 on a 500GB HDD. It's the only thing on it. I am trying to decide whether to do a fresh installation of Bodhi, and then migrate my home folder to the new drive. The alternative is to clone the old drive. This would save me the time of configuring Bodhi the way I currently have it. What do folks think is the better way?
Thanks, Mike
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Post by thewaiter on Dec 24, 2020 22:05:03 GMT
If only Bodhi is on your system, I would prefer installing the fresh release. I can recommend installing Bodhi 6 alpha based on Ubuntu 20.04 with new packages in repository. I had a similar situation with my daughter's laptop. Old Vaio on 256 GB HDD. Slow. I decided to switch to 32€ SSD SATA Apacer. The issue was it was a dual boot with Windows Vista and Bodhi. What to do? Clone of course. As I am not familiar with clonezilla or other apps in Linux world I decided to try the Win app. I wanted something very easy to use. One button app. AOMEI was the choice. www.aomeitech.com/download.htmlThe whole cloning took 55 mins. I haven't compared with other apps but in your case with 500 GB it could be more. It means it is up to you  Stefan |
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Post by mdiemer on Dec 24, 2020 23:48:29 GMT
Thanks. I'll have to try the Alpha, not sure it will work on these specs (graphics are the issue - Bodhi 5 is the only 18.04-based distro that will work, and I have to turn off acceleration on my browser or I'll have display failures). I think Bodhi 6 stands a fair chance of working. I'll have to try the alpha and see. I've used Aomei, not bad. Also Macrium. I can also use Clonezilla (took awhile to figure that beast out ). And there's always dd. I've found some good tutorials on doing it that way, using Gparted. If I want to clone, that is. |
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Post by enigma9o7 on Dec 25, 2020 22:29:53 GMT
I got myself a new SSD for Christmas. I am going to put Bodhi 5 on it. I currently have Bodhi 5 on a 500GB HDD. It's the only thing on it. I am trying to decide whether to do a fresh installation of Bodhi, and then migrate my home folder to the new drive. The alternative is to clone the old drive. This would save me the time of configuring Bodhi the way I currently have it. What do folks think is the better way? Thanks, Mike Starting clean every one in a while is always a good idea for any operating system. Plus some crazy people actually find it enjoyable to setup their OS from clean! Gives you a chance to do things better than the last time, hindsight always 20/20, etc. Install software is easy sudo apt install whatever.
So I think that's the better way, although the clone method with clonezilla would work perfectly and save you time, you have a perfect opportunity to setup clean again, unless you dislike doing that or dont have the time, do it! I plan to do that myself sometime shortly after the next bodhi 6 beta iso is released, even tho my system running perfectly.
So my suggestion is install the new drive as only drive, setup bodhi, plugin the old drive as secondary and mount it, copy over your documents/etc, but otherwise just leave it for a backup while you setup your new clean OS
Bummer about your video problems tho, but I can vaguely relate. I've got an old machine that uses nvidia-304 for proprietary, which hasnt been in ubuntu LTS since 16.04.... requires manual patching and complicated stuff to install on 18.04; no idea what it'll take for 20.04 if possible at all since nvidia hasnt updated it since 2017.
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Post by mdiemer on Dec 26, 2020 5:19:17 GMT
Good advice, which I'll probably take, as my attempts so far to clone have not been successful. Clonezilla only works for me about half of the time. The main reason I would like to clone it is, well it has to do with the graphics issue. Can't use 304 on Ubuntu 18-based distros, as you know, but I was able to get Bodhi 5 working fine with the Nouveau drivers. The only issue is, I have to disable acceleration on my browser. that's where it gets tricky. I have to find and uncheck the correct box. But, this is near-impossible due to the graphical distortion. It took me quite awhile. I finally discovered that if I don't select the page the box is on, but rather the "show all" option, so that all pages are visible at once, I was able to sneak up on it, and uncheck that sucker. It now works perfectly. My browser by the way is Vivaldi, but the distortion happens with any browser I try to use.
So that's why I wanted to clone rather do a new install. I don't know if I just lucked out, and won't be able to to do it again (uncheck the acceleration box, that is). Hope you had a good holiday. Or at least a bearable one, given the circumstance. Cheers.
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Post by mdiemer on Dec 27, 2020 18:51:56 GMT
Well, I could not clone the old Bodhi 5 drive. I suspect it's because the drive has errors on it. So I reinstalled. I was able to disable acceleration in Vivaldi, and Bodhi is functioning perfectly. I had a problem with Gdebi when I tried to install Free Office. It just wouldn't do it, but I found a workaround. I opened Gdebi through the terminal, and navigated to the download file, then it worked. Up and running now, and very fast.
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