I don't know aboiut the virtual machine. Darktable seems to need 8G of ram to run (it doesn't run with 4 G) and the virtual maachine will chop that in half. I only have 8G in my machine. On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 12:33 PM, Carruth, Rusty wrote: > Excellent advice. Both the backup and the ‘bare metal clone’. I doubt > that I could have said it better myself… > > > > I’m also becoming more and more in favor of running a virtual machine. > I’ve got one on my work laptop and my personal laptop, and I might just > create another one on the personal laptop in which to run ‘everything’ > (other than the virtual machine which I’m using for developing some > software). > > > > > > Rusty > > > > *From:* PLUG-discuss [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org] *On > Behalf Of *Bob Elzer > *Sent:* Tuesday, April 10, 2018 9:12 AM > *To:* Main PLUG discussion list > *Subject:* Re: installed livecd to boot sector? > > > > Michael, I don't know how to fix the current problem but I can help you > from getting into these situations in the future. > > > > Backup Backup Backup > > > > Before you start making changes to your OS, you need to make a bare metal > backup. > > The easiest way to accomplish this is to clone the OS drive. > > > > After you clone, then if you screw up the Os you can just do a reverse > clone and you are back to where you started. > > > > Also you need to stop doing open heart surgery, for an ingrown toenail. If > you're having issues with darktable, post a question about the problem, > upgrading the OS seems like overkill. > > > > I've mentioned this before, you should look at running your system in a > virtual machine. > > > > Then before making changes to the system you can take a snapshot, make the > changes and then test them. If things go wrong, you just reboot to the > previous snapshot, if all is fine after a week, you can delete the old > snapshot. > > > > You could also clone the virtual system and do testing in the clone before > updating the original. > > > > Backup Backup Backup > > > > If you had a bare metal backup, you'd be up and running already. > > > > Hope this helps for the future. > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Apr 9, 2018, 8:22 PM Michael wrote: > > I forgot to mention that when I load 18.2/18.3 the cdrom icon shows the > disk I have in and the install icon is also visible. > > > > On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 10:22 PM, Michael wrote: > > well, I just realized, of course they are not going to be available.... I > haven't installed them on the new os. now I just meed to load into the os > instead of the live os > > > > On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 9:46 PM, Michael wrote: > > okay..... if I load the livecd and then load from local disk I can load my > home directory but not with everything. For instance kmymoney is not > available, darktable is not available, Chrome is not available, and others > as well. > > > > On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 9:06 PM, Michael wrote: > > I have no idea what I did wrong...... > > first..... darktable was messing up so I decided to upgrade Mint to the > newest version to see if that would fix it. > > I put the disk in and installed it but upon restarting the live disk > loaded again. Then I tried installing it again but it would load the OS > from the live disk (I guess) but then when the gui started it would access > the hard disk drive. I then tried putting a previous version on and this > time it installed (instead of failing) but when I restart the computer it > loaded the live disk (which was not in the computer at the time. What in > the world did I do? > > > > -- > > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > > > -- > > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > > > > -- > > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: