On Thu, 1 Dec 2011, John Jason Jordan wrote: > Will it boot at all? If so, it may be repairable. And even if it won't > boot, you should be able to use a rescue CD to get a later backup, if > that's important.
John, It has 11.10 running on it now. She copied her /home directory to a flash drive a couple of days ago (perhaps missing one subdirectory, but that's life), so it was time consuming for me but not fatal. > I once had a cable modem choose to die right when an Ubuntu dist-upgrade > was at about 80%. Gawd, what a mess. I gave dpkg a serious workout, but > ended up saving it. Yeah, well I don't know debian and its off-spring well enough to futz with it. > Fedora uses a "preupgrade" method where you download an image that > contains everything needed for the upgrade. Then you reboot and the > upgrade is installed from the image - no worries about losing the net > connection mid-stream. Or you can upgrade Fedora from the non-live DVD, > which is what I always do. And Slackware has a well-defined sequence that allows me to upgrade everyting on the system and add new stuff. Then I manually delete the deprecated packages. > You can upgrade Ubuntu systems from the Alternate CD or DVD as well. I > have done it at the Clinic and it works slick. Once you have the > Alternate CD or DVD the upgrade goes quickly. Next time I need to > upgrade an Ubuntu install I will definitely use the Alternate CD route. The only two choices I had were to install 11.10 in addition to 11.04 (which I knew was broken) or replace it. I did the latter. Thanks, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
