USB drives not detected

[Qqmike]

Re: USB drives not detected

Some people have their home on a separate partition, /home,
where, for example, /home/your_name is.
That's where your personal data is and your configuration settings are
(e.g., Firefox & Thunderbird profiles, Desktop appearance,
making Konqueror your default file browser, etc.).
Thus, when you upgrade in place, or reinstall/install fresh, you can maintain
your /home partition--your data and your configuration settings.
That same /home should work OK as long as you haven't tried
to upgrade/install by more than one version. The devs spend effort to
ensure that your /home will work with the new version.

As for the elongated response ... First, I congratulate you on keeping you mind
on what matters here and not on the superficial.
The elongated screen is caused by that very long link I pasted here (above)
and that you quoted me on. There's a way to avoid doing that, as noted by S-H above.
In this present post, you don't see the elongation, because
I kept introducing "carriage returns" to make the lines short.
And so it goes.

[Calgarian]

Re: USB drives not detected

I have a post:

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3094452.0

about not getting the photocards in my HP Photosmart C6280 recognized and mounted. Strange behavior. In 7.10 I couldn't get my USB pens recognized and in 8.04 they mount and appear on the desktop in seconds. In 7.10 the photocards mounted and appeared on the desktop in a few seconds. In 8.04 I can print and scan perfectly, but neither my system nor the printer will recognize that I should be able to see the photocards. My wife's Mac appears on the printer as a save location, but not my Kubuntu box. The printer is Ethernet into a router as is my Kubuntu box. My wife's Mac is wireless to the router. Similar, but different issues.

I moved from 7.10 to 8.04 by doing an upgrade over the Internet.

[geezer]

Re: USB drives not detected

Some people have their home on a separate partition, /home,
where, for example, /home/your_name is.
That's where your personal data is and your configuration settings are
(e.g., Firefox & Thunderbird profiles, Desktop appearance,
making Konqueror your default file browser, etc.).
Thus, when you upgrade in place, or reinstall/install fresh, you can maintain
your /home partition--your data and your configuration settings.
That same /home should work OK as long as you haven't tried
to upgrade/install by more than one version. The devs spend effort to
ensure that your /home will work with the new version.

Okay, now I understand what you mean. I have for more years than I care to remember, not followed the advise I have read and do not keep my '/home/name' directory on a separate partition. I just keep everything in a single huge partition.

It makes sense to do this as you say, since then all of those configuration settings do not get wiped on even a fresh install.

I spent too many years with a single partition and now that I have two dual layer DVD drives, I can back up almost everything on '/home/name' on a single DVD with a single drag and drop under K3b. It takes a long time for K3b to write the DVD, but then that is irrelevant since I would have to back-up even on a separate partition. So with '/home/name' on a single dual layer DVD, I can just do the fresh install, reformatting that single partition and then restore '/home/name' with a single drag and drop again.

I just trust the DVD back-up more than any installation program doing what I 'think' it is doing. Been fooled too many times on that.

[geezer]

Re: USB drives not detected

I have a post:

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3094452.0

about not getting the photocards in my HP Photosmart C6280 recognized and mounted. Strange behavior. In 7.10 I couldn't get my USB pens recognized and in 8.04 they mount and appear on the desktop in seconds. In 7.10 the photocards mounted and appeared on the desktop in a few seconds. In 8.04 I can print and scan perfectly, but neither my system nor the printer will recognize that I should be able to see the photocards. My wife's Mac appears on the printer as a save location, but not my Kubuntu box. The printer is Ethernet into a router as is my Kubuntu box. My wife's Mac is wireless to the router. Similar, but different issues.

I moved from 7.10 to 8.04 by doing an upgrade over the Internet.

It would appear that doing an upgrade as opposed to fresh install can make a good 7.10 installation into bad 8.04 installation or make a bad 7.10 installation into a good 8.04 installation. And probably all of the permutations of those two states. You roll the dice.

[Qqmike]

Re: USB drives not detected

@ geezer:
Partitioning—how to, Rog131:
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3090704.0
That's pretty much the thinking I follow these days.

However ...
Your point also makes good sense re backup to DVD.
I actually do the same, but selectively backup stuff to selective media
(e.g., Firefox and Thunderbird profiles on a flash drive (for handy
use, as in live sessions); permanent data to USB/UFD and DVD; etc.).
I actually, usually, wipe my /home partition clean also upon fresh install
I like a solid, clean, unencumbered, no-expectation fresh start.