Thank to you and several other responders for your advice. I am very inexperienced with Linux and this machine is used ONLY for web browsing and occasional writing, .There is nothing complex being done.
As to the old version, I was planning on just clicking the upgrade offer that appears on the shutdown screen which mentions 16.xx. I'll see if that ends up offering a later version of LTS. Thanks for helping. On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 10:30 PM Vince Winter <[email protected]> wrote: > Jim, > > Do you run virtual machines or containers at all? > > On Thu, Oct 31, 2024, 3:04 PM elcaset <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Is there a reason why you're upgrading to such an old version of Ubuntu? > > > > On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 4:15 AM jim karlock <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I want to be sure no files are lost if something goes wrong when up > > grading > > > Ubuntu 14 to 16 both LTS. > > > > > > Is copying ALL of the Home directory to an SD card sufficient to > capture > > al > > > of the files that I have created or downloaded? > > > I have no expectation of an SD card being OK for the long term, this is > > > just for the duration of the upgrade process. > > > > > > thanks > > > JK > > > > > >
