Re: [Dorset] Loss of OS during upgrade

2020-09-02 Thread Andrew
On 02/09/2020 17:19, C Wills wrote: From a 'live disk' would like to copy sda3 to another disk (USB 160Gb with 2 partitions - sdb1=NTFS and sdb2= Ext4 140Gb) before trying to re-install and ignoring the warnings!. BUT I can only copy sda3 to any /other/ location (sdb2) by becoming 'Root' and w

Re: [Dorset] Loss of OS during upgrade

2020-09-02 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty
On 02/09/2020 17:19, C Wills wrote: > Interesting meeting last night especially about the keyboard settings, > found several things about the PC keyboard I was using and it's > additional keys. > > Sorry this is a long email. > Now to my problem:  While trying to upgrade from Mint 19.3 to Mint 20 >

[Dorset] Loss of OS during upgrade

2020-09-02 Thread C Wills
Interesting meeting last night especially about the keyboard settings, found several things about the PC keyboard I was using and it's additional keys. Sorry this is a long email. Now to my problem:  While trying to upgrade from Mint 19.3 to Mint 20 problems arose which have stop me using the

Re: [Dorset] Understanding EXT4 disk options

2020-09-02 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty
On 31/08/2020 12:33, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Do a remount changing an option line barrier between 0 and 1 and back > again. Each time observe whether mount and mountinfo reflect the latest > change and whether they tally. This should give you confidence in what > to trust when observing your fina