Reinstalling Kubuntu

My data drive had some filesystem tree corruption, and I was forced to rebuild it. I figured I’d just reinstall Kubuntu too, since I inadvertently installed Ubuntu Desktop, which kind of doubled the number of applications on the menu.

Here are some of the things I did to remind myself in case my system crashes again:

• Make a dos partition writable - the options in fstab for the partition should be: user,exec,rw,umask=000 0 0
• Get Automatix and install some of the necessary non-free software
• Install packages used for compiling source code: sudo apt-get install build-essential

I’ll add to the list as I walk through the rebuilding of my settings.