Literally.
I just bought a new drive to upgrade from Fedora 14 to 18. So I load the new OS onto the new drive, which is drive 1, and keep my old installation as drive 2, figuring I can then just move the old data off it onto the new one. The problem is, it won’t let me. I can see the drive in the Gnome file browser, but my home directory has an “X” on it, and when I click on it, it tells me I don’t have permission to view it. I tried mounting it as root in the shell, and I’m not seeing anything on it that way. I know it’s all fine, because I can still boot from it and go back to the old system, but I can’t figure out how to access it from the new one.
Anyone have any suggestions?
I would think it problematical to have two /home/simberg directories mounted at the same time.
It’s probably a permissions issue. You can use a root shell or open the Gnome file manager as root to change the permissions on the old home folder (which may cause problems if you boot into the old OS), or copy the files to the new installation and change the permissions manually.
Just mounting the drive as root wouldn’t fix that because the system would still be reading the permissions from the old installation.
Most likely your numeric user ID changed between the installations. Mine did too when I replaced Ubuntu with Mint.
You could either do a chown -R on the old directory to set it to your new user ID or copy it as root.
Well, here’s the problem I’m having as root:
[root@new-host ~]# mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb2 /mnt/Fed14
mount: /dev/sdb2 is already mounted or /mnt/Fed14 busy
So if it’s already mounted, where is it mounted?
OK, never mind. I found it when I just ran “mount.” It put it in /run/media/simberg
This. Recently Fedora increased the range of “system” UID’s from 500 to 1000. Older versions of Fedora started non-system UID’s at 500. Newer versions of Fedora start non-system UID’s at 1000. So probably the FC14 has simberg as UID 500 and the FC18 has simberg as UID 1000.
Yes, that was the problem. Once I chowned everything to myself as root, all was fine (except the old drive will no longer boot — fortunately it doesn’t have to any more).
Ed… Any comments on Mint? I have been getting tired of the Ubuntu move to Unity and loathe where Gnome has been going so I switched to Mate on gnome-ubuntu. There are some issues I yet have to work out. I have heard some folks evangelizing Mint but I am waiting to get a better picture of how it develops over time and with folks using it for day to day work.
A few weeks ago I trashed my windows password somehow, could not find my install disks, the emergency disk was worthless, so decided it was time to make the move to Linux.
Other than my being a complete Linux noob, I’ve liked the Linux Mint 15 rc w/ Cinnamon I’ve been using. I’ve probably screwed up a few installs such as MySQL which I can only create and modify databases as root (getting permissions to work right has been a challenge.) But in my limited Linux experience, I’d say it’s great.
Software is an issue. I worked on mega projects for decades in windows without a hitch using Access, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, xBase and others, but in Linux getting a compiler to do a ‘hello world’ or work without crashing has been tough. Being half blind probably doesn’t help either.
There are pretty good software development tools on Linux. Considering it was done by developers for developers that sort of comes with the territory.
Most people program in PHP and use MySQL to create a web app. Since you can easily install a web server on your own machine you can run web apps locally this way.
If you just want to do a hello world it is fairy easy to do in Python. From the shell:
$ python
>>> print “Hello, world”
Try the KDE variant of Ubuntu (Kubuntu). Very comfortable.
Mint is probably the best Linux version around at the moment. It’s basically Ubuntu with the MATE interface, which is an update of the old Gnome 2.
I was using XFCE on Ubuntu for a while after Unity came out, but MATE is much more useful.
Dumpster diving. Format often. It works for me.