[ubuntu-uk] Final Upgrade to Lucid, not worked completely

[John Matthews]

On 05/05/10 15:33, Alan Pope wrote:
> On 5 May 2010 15:18, John Stevenson<john at jr0cket.com>  wrote:
>    
>> If you boot of an Ubuntu live CD or USB stick, then you can mount the hard
>> drive partition you have your root ( / ) partition on and change the path
>> that is your root from the live partition to your hard drive partion using
>> chroot.  You could then try to continue the install (optionally uninstalling
>> wine first).
>>
>>      
> Given John is clearly not an advanced user, if you're going to suggest
> using tools like chroot, I'd suggest providing a step-by-step guide to
> doing it. Handing someone a CD and "use chroot" isn't really going to
> be useful to most people.
>
> I'm thinking tonight I might record a screencast about how to do this
> because it gets asked for quite a bit.
>
>    
>> Seeing your new comments though, I would advise against doing this yourself
>> as you could break your system.
>>
>>      
> *boggle*
>
> Al.
>
>    


BTW, I have to go out, will be back in a couple of hours, sorry about that.

John

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