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I have installed ubuntu 11.10 this month after verifying various comments about the OS version stability.

I have already installed ubuntu 11.04 in my notebook. So in this article I am describing method of taking the backup old installation files and doing the fresh install and restoring it.

After boot from live cd, open the terminal and type

#sudo bash

For root login.The type

#mount

command for check the device details

As per the second screen shot you can easily understand that my  older installation is on /dev/sda6 and remainig are windows partition.

ubuntu 11.10 install copying the olde installer file

Then I have created the folder called test and mounted the windows partition on it.

After that I have created folder ‘test1″ for mount the Linux partition on it, Please refer the above screen shot. Then copy the /home/sahab  into the windows mounted directory test.

For the remaining steps please refer the below video file

Apart from being a great 3D modeller and one of the best animation programs, Blender is also a great composting program.

Blender is professional Open Source 3D modelling suit that’s runs in Ubuntu (which also available for windows).  The latest version of blender is 2.60a.

Blender 2.60 Features
Blender 2.60 come with numerous changes since its version 2.59, here some of feature you can find in Blender 2.60 taken from its official website ”

• Blender 2.60 allow us to place speaker objects in the scene, make an animation and mix down to an audio file.
• Blender 2.60 Includes several changes to the graph editor, dopesheet editor, NLA editor, curves, drivers, constraints, and posing.
• Vertex group modifiers has been added. There are three modifiers can be chosen : one to edit existing vertex groups, one to mix groups together, and another to generate vertex groups based on proximity to other objects
• Blender 2.60 now support non-English language (eg : Chinese

Installation steps

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cheleb/blender-svn
• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get install blender