Re: installed livecd to boot sector?

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 <Rusty.Carruth@smartm.com>
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> Excellent advice. Both the backup and the ‘bare metal clone’. I doubt
> that I could have said it better myself…
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> 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).
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> Rusty
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> *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?
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> Michael, I don't know how to fix the current problem but I can help you
> from getting into these situations in the future.
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> Backup Backup Backup
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> Before you start making changes to your OS, you need to make a bare metal
> backup.
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> The easiest way to accomplish this is to clone the OS drive.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> I've mentioned this before, you should look at running your system in a
> virtual machine.
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> 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.
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> You could also clone the virtual system and do testing in the clone before
> updating the original.
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> Backup Backup Backup
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> If you had a bare metal backup, you'd be up and running already.
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> Hope this helps for the future.
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> On Mon, Apr 9, 2018, 8:22 PM Michael <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 10:22 PM, Michael <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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
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> On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 9:46 PM, Michael <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 9:06 PM, Michael <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I have no idea what I did wrong......
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> first..... darktable was messing up so I decided to upgrade Mint to the
> newest version to see if that would fix it.
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> 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?
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