InstallFest this Saturday, Sept 15

[Mark Phillips]

Some great ideas.

One issue for "repaving my hard drives" relates to insync. I have 6 or 7
email accounts that I use insync to update my folders for these accounts to
their respective google drives. If I "re-pave"my system, I will have to buy
insync plus @ $30/account to set up the same system I have in place now. I
still get insync updates, so the software is current, but they have a new
license arrangement now as it use to be free before.

My system is working just fine now. I wanted to upgrade because 14.04 will
no longer receive security updates starting next April.

Maybe a clone to an external 2TB drive would work, since I would then have
all the bits for the new system if I need any of them outside of /home.
However, that does not fix my insync problem. Will have to think if there
are other issues like insync to confront.

Stephen,

No, that process did not work. It always failed, and after (literally) a
couple of hours on the phone with System 76 support trying all sorts of
ways to make it work, they gave up!

Mark

On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 10:29 AM, Stephen Partington <cryptworks at gmail.com>
wrote:

> did this not work? https://tutorials.ubuntu.com/tutorial/tutorial-
> upgrading-ubuntu-desktop#0
> well you still have to do 16.04 first but it should work much the same way.
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 10:15 AM Matthew Gibson <
> guanjun.de.geliqian at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Mark,
>>
>> I also dislike nuke and paving my system everytime ubuntu notches up a
>> version number. That said 14 is reaching end of support if it hasnt
>> already. You will soon find no more security updates is a bad thing. You've
>> got time, go through and migrate things to your /home and then once you
>> have that done, you can proceed as Todd has suggested.
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 14, 2018, 9:37 AM Mark Phillips <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Todd,
>>>
>>> Thanks for the information about the InstallFest. I forgot to mention
>>> that the system is set up with 2 mirrored 1 TB SSDs.
>>>
>>> I am not excited about a clean install because I will then have to
>>> install and configure all my applications again, and I know not all the
>>> important stuff is in /home.
>>>
>>> Perhaps I should just be content with 14.04.
>>>
>>> Mark
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 7:00 PM, Todd Cole <toddc at azloco.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Mark
>>>>  Yes we will be meeting Sat at UAT 10-4PM
>>>> upgrade can be done but I suspect most will recommend clean install
>>>> 18.04   we normally back up /home   which contains all files and data docs
>>>> ect.  then install clean. Why?   Linux changes too fast 14.04 to 16.04
>>>> failed 50%
>>>> due to massive changes that were unable to be accounted for. 16.04 to
>>>> 18.04 works 90% backing up home and clean install 100% plus we can test it
>>>> before hand with live media. we will every thing to test upgrade or clean
>>>> install
>>>> so either way we should be able to get you current. Todd
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 6:39 PM, Mark Phillips <
>>>> mark at phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Just checking to make sure the InstallFest is still happening this
>>>>> Saturday.
>>>>>
>>>>> I need some help upgrading my System76 Gazelle laptop from Ubuntu
>>>>> 14.04 to 16.04 to 18.04. I spent a couple of hours on the phone with the
>>>>> System 76 support techs, and we could not get the updater to run. I am
>>>>> hoping there will be someone there who can help me! Or, is this a too
>>>>> advanced topic for the InstallFest?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>
>>>>> Mark
>>>>>
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