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Over the next few days, I’ll be re-installing my main Desktop from scratch with Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex.

This is mainly to help me cleanup my PC (I’ve got a lot of stuff on it) and also so I can make better use of my system.

So, first of all I need a copy of Intrepid. I’ve opted for the alternate CD as I want to try LVM + Software RAID.

I’ve also decided already that I will be completely removing Windows from this machine (having previously had an archaic Windows 2000 install for playing online poker).

While I reinstall, I’m going to be using my trusty eeePC to blog about it, so hopefully those little snags that I hit along the way will be documented somewhere, and hey, it might even make for some good reading.

Well, as we all know, the first step to re-installing a system is… backup…

I’m currently sitting here waiting for my home directory to tar itself up onto my external 1TB hard drive, and watching as the file list goes past, I realise just how lax I’ve been at keeping my home directory tidy. I’ve got the last ~6 years of crap in there (including a backup of all my music which I’d thought I’d lost years ago! – yay!)

I’m backing up my home drive as I’m going to be wiping that, which, while it means re-installing all my settings, etc etc, means that I have a clean start (and if I actually do need something out of it, I can just pull it out of the tarball )

Well, the backup’s on it’s way, my download of the ISO has 15 minutes left, so I’ll go ahead and hit publish, with the final words.

See you on the flip side.