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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Excellent advice. Both the backup and the ‘bare metal clone’. I doubt that I could have said it better myself…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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one on the personal laptop in which to run ‘everything’ (other than the virtual machine which I’m using for developing some software).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> PLUG-discuss [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Bob Elzer<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, April 10, 2018 9:12 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Main PLUG discussion list<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: installed livecd to boot sector?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Michael, I don't know how to fix the current problem but I can help you from getting into these situations in the future.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Backup Backup Backup<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Before you start making changes to your OS, you need to make a bare metal backup.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The easiest way to accomplish this is to clone the OS drive.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I've mentioned this before, you should look at running your system in a virtual machine.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">You could also clone the virtual system and do testing in the clone before updating the original.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If you had a bare metal backup, you'd be up and running already.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hope this helps for the future.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Mon, Apr 9, 2018, 8:22 PM Michael <<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com">bmike1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 10:22 PM, Michael <<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 9:46 PM, Michael <<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 9:06 PM, Michael <<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">first..... darktable was messing up so I decided to upgrade Mint to the newest version to see if that would fix it.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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?<o:p></o:p></p>
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