On Mon, 6 Jul 2015, [email protected] wrote:

Because Firefox kept locking up and various other things were out of date,
I decided to upgrade to the latest version of Linux Mint. The upgrade
seemed to work but resulted in a blank desktop, so I decided a complete
re-install was required.

So I backed up the /home directory to an external USB hard drive,
programmed a USB key with a Mint .iso and booted up into the latest Mint.

   If you keep /home on a separate partition, you wouldn't have this problem.

...
So I decided that the simplest route was to re-install.

Then, for some reason, the USB key wouldn't boot. Fortunately, an old
Knoppix CD did boot, establishing that boot from CD was still working. So
I prevailed on my friend Gabriel to burn me an .iso on DVD, and that
worked.

So, to my colleagues in TLUG, I ask: How would you deal with the
re-location of /bin, assuming you didn't want to re-install?

PATH=$PATH:/path/to/bin

   Or:

mv /path/to/bin /

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Chris F.A. Johnson, <http://cfajohnson.com>
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