Dear George,

Copying the home folder should be enough. But to be sure, could you send us the 
outputs of the following commands:

sudo mount

ls -l /

ls -l /home

I also found the device path to your USB hard disk a bit strange, do you really 
have 3 partitions on it (sdc3)?

Cheers, Christian


Sent from my Commodore 64

On 18 Feb 2017, at 12:40, Rugeyyi George 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

Computer is Currently running Linux mint on a dell latitude D420:

Used command:

fdisk -l

to view the devices before and after attaching the external drives.
created a directory:

sudo mkdir /media/flash

and mounted one of the drives to the created directory:

sudo mount /dev/sdc3 /media/flash

A partion on my external drive that it accepted to mount, it denied other 
devices.
Tried to copy files from my home folder to the external drive:

sudo cp -r /home/dell/* /media/flash

And Is currently trying to copy the files to my external hard disk attached.
Will try the recovery command for the GUI later after copying thanks and will 
keep you posted.

QN: Is copying the home folder enough to retrive all the data or there is 
another folder i should copy.


Thanks and Best Regards

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Subject: [LUG] linux mint does not load GUI
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Dell linux laptop has failed to load GUI,any ideas to recover the gnome GUI.
but it takes me to the command prompt under recovery mode.

What command can i used to mount an exteranla hard disk on it and back up
all the data on the machine to be restored later on.

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To: Uganda Linux User Group <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
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Hello George,

Firts you must be an administrator to mount the drive so do sudo su and
insert in the password.

Then do fdisk -l to list the device name. For example /dev/sdb

After getting the device name then do mount /dev/sdb /media

Then browse to media to see the mounted drive using cd /media

Hope that helps

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On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 1:09 PM, Rugeyyi George 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

> Dell linux laptop has failed to load GUI,any ideas to recover the gnome
> GUI.
> but it takes me to the command prompt under recovery mode.
>
> What command can i used to mount an exteranla hard disk on it and back up
> all the data on the machine to be restored later on.
>
> --
> Rugeyyi George Igga
> Medicines sans Frontieres
> Workshop Kampala
> P.O.Box 3423
> Tel:+256-752-485497<tel:%2B256-752-485497> <+256%20752%20485497>
> (2010-Date)
>
> Uganda Institute of Information and Communications Technology
> Plot 9-21 Port Bell Road,Nakawa
> P.O.Box,7187,Kampala(2007-2009)
>
> Faculty of Computing and
> Information Technology,
> Makerere University,
> P.O.Box:7062 Kampala Uganda
> (2005-2007)
>
>
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Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 22:07:14 +0300
From: David Okwii <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
To: Uganda Linux User Group <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Subject: Re: [LUG] How can I Connect Mifi to router?
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Okay I need to update this thread because I finally found a solution to my
problem. Recently I bought a Xiaomi router 3 and then I also subscribed to
Tangerine 4G, so I got a MiFi.

The challenge has always been extending my MiFi's WiFi's signal using a
WiFi router. Turns out you simply run the WiFi router in bridge mode which
is what I've done with my Xiaomi router. The bridge mode supports
connecting the Xiaomi router to another wireless wifi router via the WAN
port using ethernet cable or wirelessly via WiFi. Since the MiFi doesn't
have any LAN ports, I obviously opted for the wireless method and that's
how my problem has been solved :)

On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 10:29 AM, Brian Nkurunungi 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
wrote:

> Hey,
>
> From your Huawei B865 3G , if you can search for your devices and be able
> to find the Vodafone unit, you can bridge the devices hence uniting ur
> network.
>
> Huawei e5151 comes handy with an ethernet port and this would have been a
> walkover for you .
>
> Rgds ,
>
> Brian N
>
> On 4 Jan 2017 12:07 p.m., "David Okwii" 
> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I've been toying with this idea for a while but don't know how or whether
> it would work.
>
> So I've a Vodafone Mifi and Huawei B865 3G wireless router. The router has
> 4 Ethernet LAN ports and supports up to 32 wireless users.
>
> I use the router mainly for WiFi functions; media streaming, file sharing
> etc. I use the Mifi for internet functions. So they're two different
> networks working separately.
>
> Now I want to connect these two network devices so that devices hooked to
> the router can still access the internet through the Mifi Internet. What
> I've read online involves two routers connected either via Ethernet cable
> or via bridge configuration.
>
> Has anyone faced this challenge? How can I do it? Thanks.
>
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Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 22:11:46 +0300
From: "Jemba E. S. Rogers" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
To: Uganda Linux User Group <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Subject: Re: [LUG] How can I Connect Mifi to router?
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Thanks David (:-!

Cheers

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On Feb 17, 2017 22:08, "David Okwii" 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

Okay I need to update this thread because I finally found a solution to my
problem. Recently I bought a Xiaomi router 3 and then I also subscribed to
Tangerine 4G, so I got a MiFi.

The challenge has always been extending my MiFi's WiFi's signal using a
WiFi router. Turns out you simply run the WiFi router in bridge mode which
is what I've done with my Xiaomi router. The bridge mode supports
connecting the Xiaomi router to another wireless wifi router via the WAN
port using ethernet cable or wirelessly via WiFi. Since the MiFi doesn't
have any LAN ports, I obviously opted for the wireless method and that's
how my problem has been solved :)

On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 10:29 AM, Brian Nkurunungi 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
wrote:

> Hey,
>
> From your Huawei B865 3G , if you can search for your devices and be able
> to find the Vodafone unit, you can bridge the devices hence uniting ur
> network.
>
> Huawei e5151 comes handy with an ethernet port and this would have been a
> walkover for you .
>
> Rgds ,
>
> Brian N
>
> On 4 Jan 2017 12:07 p.m., "David Okwii" 
> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I've been toying with this idea for a while but don't know how or whether
> it would work.
>
> So I've a Vodafone Mifi and Huawei B865 3G wireless router. The router has
> 4 Ethernet LAN ports and supports up to 32 wireless users.
>
> I use the router mainly for WiFi functions; media streaming, file sharing
> etc. I use the Mifi for internet functions. So they're two different
> networks working separately.
>
> Now I want to connect these two network devices so that devices hooked to
> the router can still access the internet through the Mifi Internet. What
> I've read online involves two routers connected either via Ethernet cable
> or via bridge configuration.
>
> Has anyone faced this challenge? How can I do it? Thanks.
>
> _______________________________________________
> The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug
>
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Hi,

To recover the GUI, you can use tasksel to fix the broken packages.

As a super user .Input the command tasksel.it<http://tasksel.it> will display 
the packages
available.look for gnome desktop and run it .Please share feedback if it
works as there are other ways.of restoring it.

Regards,

ABUDUKARIM KIGUNDU
0785135527<tel:0785135527>.
Skype ID abudukarimu.kigundu1

I hope this helps
On 17 Feb 2017 1:10 PM, "Rugeyyi George" 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

> Dell linux laptop has failed to load GUI,any ideas to recover the gnome
> GUI.
> but it takes me to the command prompt under recovery mode.
>
> What command can i used to mount an exteranla hard disk on it and back up
> all the data on the machine to be restored later on.
>
> --
> Rugeyyi George Igga
> Medicines sans Frontieres
> Workshop Kampala
> P.O.Box 3423
> Tel:+256-752-485497<tel:%2B256-752-485497> <+256%20752%20485497>
> (2010-Date)
>
> Uganda Institute of Information and Communications Technology
> Plot 9-21 Port Bell Road,Nakawa
> P.O.Box,7187,Kampala(2007-2009)
>
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> Information Technology,
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