yes sir. thsnk you. On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 12:11 PM, Bob Elzer wrote: > 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~(-: