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Ideally avoided but I've had to do a new install often on laptop, as OS X upgrades have been trashing bootability of my linux partitions and I haven't had time/skill to figure out why.
Ideally avoided but I've had to do a new install often on laptop, as OS X upgrades have been trashing bootability of my linux partitions and I haven't had time/skill to figure out why.
* do the one-line ubuntu software installation (as well as the dev one-line)
* do the one-line ubuntu software installation (as well as the dev one-line)
* do the mac-specific installs: sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer xserver-xorg-input-mtrack
* do the mac-specific installs too - you'll need to mount /osx so you can get to isight firmware
* copy entire home folder using: sudo rsync -aPside
* copy entire home folder using: sudo rsync -aPside
* install i3-gaps again (see above)
* install i3-gaps again (see above)

Revision as of 14:10, 17 August 2016

POST-UPGRADE

cd development/i3-gaps && git pull && make && sudo make install

SET UP A NEW INSTALL

Ideally avoided but I've had to do a new install often on laptop, as OS X upgrades have been trashing bootability of my linux partitions and I haven't had time/skill to figure out why.

  • do the one-line ubuntu software installation (as well as the dev one-line)
  • do the mac-specific installs too - you'll need to mount /osx so you can get to isight firmware
  • copy entire home folder using: sudo rsync -aPside
  • install i3-gaps again (see above)
  • fix the trackpad settings again by putting this symlink in place: /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/60-synaptics.conf
  • sudo unity-control-center, Software & Updates, Additional drivers, NVIDIA binary driver, reboot right away
  • keyboard, enable function keys (instead of media keys)