Upgrading from 12.04.5LTS to 14.04.1LTS Unable to do an upgrade from CD **CLOSED**

[Jay Ridgley]

On 10/04/2014 01:44 PM, Jay Ridgley wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I am trying to keep the same thread, however, to losing my entire hard 
> drive contents during an attempt to upgrade from 12.04.5LTS to 
> 14.04.1LTS it may not be the same thread.
>
> Current status I have gotten things back together, mostly, that is.
>
> I lost everything that was not backed up offline, I learned a vital 
> lesson here, backing up to the same drive, different partition is not 
> a good method. For two reasons if the disk is wiped BYE-BYE or if it 
> fails you have the same problem.
>
> The bottom line is I installed a fresh copy over what I had, I will 
> not supply the details (to protect the guilty).
>
> However, I still have a few more questions, post install. Should this 
> thread be closed and a new one opened? If so let me no and I will 
> respond with  ** CLOSED**  in the subject an start a new therad.
>
> In part the problem was an known error that is documented that I missed...
>
> Regards and apologies,
> jay
>
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> Jay Ridgley
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Folks,
I am closing this, see my message above, This should also close  the 
prior thread with the same title as this one. As I said I lost my data 
and with it my e-mail.

Cheers,
Jay

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Jay Ridgley
jridgley2 at austin.rr.com
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