Ubuntu 11.04 installation

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I managed to corrupt the root partition on my main personal system, a Toshiba Satellite P500. Since I had to re-install Ubuntu anyway, I took the opportunity to move on to 11.04.

I wanted to keep the same partition structure as I had before on the Toshiba, with a 30GB partition mounted at /, an 8GB swap partition, and the rest of the disk as a single partition mounted at /home. The installation went smoothly. Just remember to connect your machine to the internet by wire for purposes of the installation. It won't find your wireless adapter during the installation process.

Default settings in .bashrc are a little different in 11.04 than they were in 10.04.
It ships with popular ls aliases and with .bash_aliases already sourced.
I made no changes to .bashrc this time.

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Shell personalization after reinstalling Ubuntu

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Shell personalization after reinstalling Ubuntu

I set up some preferences in login files a little differently than before, based on tips from Stefaan Lippens. I put environment variable definitions in .profile and sourced .profile and .bash_aliases in .bash_profile. This seems to be quite a convenient setup. Added the following to .bash_aliases

# Shortcuts for directory listings
alias ll='ls -lF --color=auto'
alias la='ls -alF --color=auto'
alias ls='ls -F'

# Highlight matches in grep
alias grep='grep --color=auto'

# Start and stop my local wiki
alias wiki='~/.bin/wiki'
alias wiki_stop='~/.bin/wiki_stop'

# Start Freemind mind-mapping tool
alias freemind='~/.freemind/freemind.sh'

# Start UMLet diagramming tool
alias umlet='umlet.sh'

Uncommented the following lines in the provided .bashrc

if [ -f ~/.bash_aliases ]; then
    . ~/.bash_aliases
fi

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