[Nottingham] Hello

[Will White]

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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