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

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

Bret Busby wrote:
>Little Girl wrote:
>> Bret Busby wrote:
  
>>>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.

That's a shame. Well, there's no going back. I hope you have better
luck in the future and I'm glad it's currently working better.

-- 
Little Girl

There is no spoon.