Upgrade from 16.04.x to 18.04.3 broke system - was Upgrade paths from UbuntuMATE 16.04.x and 18.04.x to 19.10

[Bret Busby]

On 17/10/2019, Little Girl <littlergirl at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey there,
>
> Bret Busby wrote:
>
>>This seems to have worked out a bit like the Chinese parable "The old
>>man who lost a horse" (well worth reading and understanding).
>
> I see.
>
>>I copied what data I could access, from the Debian (version 6 -
>>hadn't looked at it for years) and UbuntuMATE installations,
>>eliminated the Debian and Ubuntu installations, did a bit of
>>repartitioning, to expand the / and /swap partitions, and, installed
>>UbuntuMATE 19.04, with a properly now separate /home partition, and
>>now, it works better, including that the wifi now works with
>>UbuntuMATE.
>
> What do you mean by "eliminated the Debian and Ubuntu installations"
> above? Has the data you weren't able to retrieve by other means now
> been deleted? Or does everything still exist?
>

Deleted the partitions, and repartitioned where they were.

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Bret Busby
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West Australia
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