[Nottingham] Hello
Will White
w.white9 at icloud.com
Thu Feb 24 13:58:20 UTC 2022
Thank you very much Jason. I'd got as far as Clonezilla, so this will be
useful!
Hopefully I'll "see you on the other side".
On 24/02/22 08:40, J I via Nottingham wrote:
> Hi again Will,
>
> Thought about this a bit and here is some hopefully useful advice.
> Trisquel is based off Ubuntu, I am familiar with Ubuntu, and have had
> great success with in-place upgrade and not losing anything.
>
> * First, take a back-up
> o "Clonezilla" is a great tool.
> o You can just use a command like "dd" to dump everything off
> the internal drive onto the backup one, but Clonezilla is
> going to give you more hand-holding and error protection
> * Check the backup.
> o Pretty sure Clonezilla has some way to verify.
> o If you used "dd", you should just be able to mount the partitions
> * Update the system: "sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade
> --allow-downgrades && sudo apt autoremove --purge"
> * Might want to consider another back-up here
> * If you have any really critical files, take a separate copy of
> those. Don't forget any critical settings that might be hiding
> under the likes of "~/.conf" or "~/.mozilla" (finding all the
> settings files can be a right pain)
> * If you use any PPAs, these will be disabled in the next step; you
> can restore them later
> * Upgrade: "sudo do-release-upgrade"
> * All being well, this will work sweet as a nut
> * If, however, it comes down in screaming flames you will be left in
> one of two situations.
> 1. (Unlikely): Unbootable mess, it's destroyed; try to gather any
> debug/failure info and restore from backup
> 2. Boots, but then has various whinges, the desktop won't start,
> applications error, etc.
> + Probably down to PPAs, restoring them (see below) and then
> updating has always fixed this for me.
> + Or you'll just have to pick through the errors as they get
> reported
> * Restore any PPAs by popping into "/etc/apt" and editing
> "sources.list" and any files under "sources.list.d"
> o You might need to fiddle with version numbers in the files as
> they may need updated for the new OS
> o Entries should be commented out and tagged with "disabled on
> upgrade to"
> * Update again: "sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade
> --allow-downgrades && sudo apt autoremove --purge"
> o Depending on the version of Ubuntu that was the base, "sudo
> apt autopurge" might now work instead of that last command
> * Check that everything works and hopefully you are done!
>
> Any questions/problems, get back on the list and I am sure someone can
> help.
>
> Best of luck!
>
> J.
>
> On Tue, 22 Feb 2022 at 18:17, Will White via Nottingham
> <nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk <mailto:nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk>>
> wrote:
>
> Hello Nottingham LUG,
>
> I’m currently running Trisquel 8, and trying to install 9 without
> losing my workflow (or data).
>
> Nice to be here,
>
> Will
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