| horace | hey guys, anyone out there? | 20:08 |
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| blkperl | horace: hey | 20:12 |
| horace | totally new to the forum, i'm a ubuntu user for couple of yrs | 20:28 |
| horace | but, as much as i'd like to say otherwise, i'm a newbie to ubuntu.... | 20:31 |
| horace | tried to upgrade to 13.10 from 13.04 but ran into problem | 20:31 |
| horace | wonder if anyone could help..... | 20:31 |
| horace | problem is : in the middle of the upgrade, one of the packages got stuck.... | 20:32 |
| horace | after something like 8 hrs, nothing happened.... | 20:32 |
| horace | and i forced a reboot.... | 20:32 |
| horace | but ubuntu no longer loads..... | 20:33 |
| horace | for other problems, i used to be able to google search on askubuntu and find a fix pretty quickly | 20:36 |
| horace | but this one doesn't seem to have any fix...... | 20:36 |
| horace | first, any suggestion? | 20:37 |
| horace | second, would you guys be available on a consulting basis to help me fix it | 20:38 |
| nibalizer | whats the problem? | 20:38 |
| nibalizer | ubuntu dosen't boot any more? | 20:38 |
| horace | yes, doesn't boot | 20:39 |
| horace | fyi, i have dual partition with win7 on the other end | 20:39 |
| horace | i see the grub menu to choose ubuntu, but it drops me into command line,.... nautilus fails | 20:40 |
| nibalizer | hrm | 20:44 |
| nibalizer | so what i would do is boot of ubuntu live cd or usb | 20:44 |
| nibalizer | then go to the 'try ubuntu' mode which will be ubuntu without installing | 20:44 |
| nibalizer | and copy all my files to a safe place | 20:44 |
| nibalizer | maybe the win 7 partition | 20:44 |
| nibalizer | then reinstall | 20:44 |
| horace | ah ha, that's a good suggestion......let me give it a trial | 20:45 |
| horace | i boot in with live cd, but tried reinstall then fear i would lose my /home | 20:45 |
| horace | hey thanks...... | 20:46 |
| nibalizer | np | 20:46 |
| nibalizer | yea the 'rsync' utility on the command line is graet for doing big network backups | 20:46 |
| horace | hey guys, just asked a question about recovering from a crash during upgrade | 22:30 |
| horace | i need to preserve my /home so i don't want a clean re-install | 22:31 |
| horace | one of you suggested going in wiht a live cd and 'try ubuntu' | 22:31 |
| horace | then copy my /home to a usb | 22:32 |
| blkperl | yea | 22:32 |
| horace | just tried that, but ubuntu complains i do not have permission to copy | 22:33 |
| horace | what to do? | 22:33 |
| blkperl | what command are you using | 22:34 |
| blkperl | put sudo in front of it | 22:34 |
| horace | just drag & drop in nautilus | 22:35 |
| blkperl | yeah thats not going to work becuase "try ubuntu" uses the ubuntu user | 22:35 |
| horace | inside 'try' mode | 22:35 |
| blkperl | you need to use sudo with rsync or cp -r | 22:36 |
| horace | how to use rsync? | 22:36 |
| blkperl | rsync -PHa /old/path /new/path | 22:38 |
| horace | hey, i'm in 'try' and just did 'sudo cp -r /oldpath /newpath | 22:41 |
| horace | seems to work...but checking..... | 22:41 |
| blkperl | cool | 22:41 |
| horace | hang on...... | 22:42 |
| horace | still have permission issue | 22:52 |
| horace | so i'm at /home/user level | 22:53 |
| horace | subfolders are here | 22:53 |
| horace | i want to copy, say, a subdir inside /home/user/DATA/myfoo | 22:53 |
| horace | so 'sudo cp -r /DATA/myfoo /usbdrive' | 22:55 |
| horace | i got 'no such file or directory' | 22:56 |
| horace | i don't want to copy the whole /DATA because it's huge and has stuff i got copy of | 23:01 |
| nibalizer | hi horace | 23:02 |
| nibalizer | so what about sticking a different usb stick in your computer | 23:02 |
| nibalizer | and copying files to that | 23:02 |
| horace | i'm not just copying the whole /DATA over to ext HD....taking a long time......but that's ok.... | 23:14 |
| horace | hey, did anyone haev the same problem upgrading from 13.04 to 13.10? | 23:14 |
| horace | this happened to me couple days ago..... | 23:15 |
| horace | ....meant to say 'i'm copying the whole /DATA over...' | 23:21 |
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