[02:57] <El-Predicador> Hello!
[03:20] <strobe2020> i need to do a fresh install from 18.04 to 20.04 and wanted to keep my existing partition structure. if i do a fresh install and recreate user 'foo' will all the personal data in /home/foo be overwritten over just the config stuff? /home is on its own partition
[03:22] <strobe2020> i'm trying to avoid having to move personal files off /home/foo, then back over
[03:22] <strobe2020> sorry if it's a dumb question, but i've never tried it before
[03:24] <krytarik> I believe the key to the external home partition not being overwritten on installation is to not tick 'format' >_<
[03:28] <strobe2020> krytarik, but what about all the user config stuff that's relevant to 18.04? Does it get overwritten or ignored? I don't want to break the system having conflicting config files, etc.
[03:29] <strobe2020> The other solution I'm guessing is easier is to just rename the $USER home folder, keep it on the partition and then just move the personal files over to the new user home folder
[03:31] <krytarik> Well yeah, keeping old potentially conflicting user config around is always the downside of keeping the home directory.  So yes, doing it the other way around would be an option.
[03:33] <strobe2020> I'm still not sure if mv actually copies the data to the new location or just updates the file system pointers. I'm trying to avoid copying over gigs of data
[03:36] <krytarik> Well, if it's on the same partition, there is no need to physically move the data of course - but it won't matter in this case, the installer is not a forensic tool trying to destroy all the user's previous home data. XD
[03:39] <strobe2020> krytarik, Yeah, I'll probably just rename the folder, then create a soft link inside the new home folder
[11:05] <visualshock> I have just installed lubuntu on a hp stream 13, but I get a black screen when I start the laptop. How can I fix this?
[11:07] <oerheks> !nomodeset
[11:07] <oerheks> maybe this is your fix too ..
[11:11] <visualshock> It already has nomodeset
[11:19] <visualshock> I will just try to install lubuntu again
[16:59] <studio> ok
[16:59] <studio> hullo
[17:00] <studio> I am looking for some help
[17:00] <studio> anybody here ?
[17:52] <tomreyn> you missed the 1 minute span from when they finished their question to when they left
[20:49] <strobe2020> I just tried to install 20.04 on a VM and installation failed: Boost.Python error in job "packages"
[21:07] <strobe2020> apparently, it has to do with a "get country" function that doesn't execute if there's no network connection.
[21:07] <strobe2020> someone else suggested just ignoring the error and rebooting, which i've done and everything seems to be working, but i don't really know if it's a corrupted install
[21:15] <Kamilion> *sigh* Virtualbox guest additions 6.1.12 break the lubuntu desktop login scripts on focal...
[21:39] <SpeakerToMeat> tomreyn, 57 seconds