[ solved ] Installed new version of lxde, seems to be pscychic

[wedgetail]

I had an older copy of lxde on /dev/sda8 and installed a new copy from liveHDD

When installing I did not let the partition be formatted, and I forgot to delete 'everything on the partition first.  

The install seems to have gone fine, except when I started up Firefox to connect to Forum I got a bit surprised that I had 6 tabs open from previous Forum topics?

My question is how clean is this install now?  Would I be better off do it all over again to be sure that this really is new copy??

The previous version may not have been updated, I don't remember.  I never kept a record of install steps but not much would have been installed to customise the system..

[AS]

I had an older copy of lxde on /dev/sda8 and installed a new copy from liveHDD

When installing I did not let the partition be formatted, and I forgot to delete 'everything on the partition first. 

The install seems to have gone fine, except when I started up Firefox to connect to Forum I got a bit surprised that I had 6 tabs open from previous Forum topics?

My question is how clean is this install now?  Would I be better off do it all over again to be sure that this really is new copy??

The previous version may not have been updated, I don't remember.  I never kept a record of install steps but not much would have been installed to customise the system..

Short answer: YES 

Long answer: by not deletting/reformatting you are retaining previous settings of installed applications (eventually not so bad), but you are retaining also binary files related to packages not installed by default, possibly resulting in a nightmare in short time. 

Suggestion: reinstalling will require some (short) time, debugging something eventually wrong would require much more efforts and time.

AS

[wedgetail]

as
I think this is what I was afraid.  Yes It is quite nice it remembers old details of value but the binary memory is not so good.  I will save the content of my Documents directory and re-install 'the right' way tomorrow. Thanks

I did not let draklive-install format as I was scared of loosing my LABEL= but I don't think you do that, as you would if I hand made the format with mke2fs -t ext 4 /dev/sda8 (forgetting the LABEL) even if not forgetting the LABEL I would get a new UUID I think.    so much to remember despite the fun.

[Just17]

e2label   will appaly a label without touching anything else so no need to worry about forgetting the label 

Usage: e2label    device    [newlabel]

If no  [newlabel] is given it will return the present label of the specified device.

regards.

[wedgetail]

Just19
This command is vaguely familiar the last one I tested was tune2fs, I checked out if that changed the UUID and the UUID stays the same. As usual I must have seen something in a 'Tutorial' of old-polack's and checked it out.

Almost invariably when my concentration slips something goes wrong.  I have re-installed LXDE and I thought I was very comfortable using draklive-install but yet it managed to destraoy my master menu.lst.   

I am tempted to repeat the install exercise.  The problem was reminiscent of the BIOS problem where the install too was 'funny'.  What happens is that I do not get the option to install the boot loader, and when I realise it is too late.

Now the damage minimal as when I brought menu.lst.old to life.