Trying to upgrade with do-release-upgrade failing

[Mike Marchywka]

After all of that, it turned out the 300Gb laptop drive had 30Gb of free space.
I installed Beaver on that in minimal mode, after pounding on the stuck glide junk
to stop the cursor from drifting away, and it booted right up.  I still have my
11 system and 'Dohs 7 .

Thanks. It may have been exciting resizing the ntfs partition or installing
over 11 but it turned out not to be an issue.




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From: ubuntu-users <ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com> on behalf of Mike Marchywka <marchywka at hotmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2020 3:34 PM
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Subject: Re: Trying to upgrade with do-release-upgrade failing

It looks like the Beaver stick install has an option to repartition which should work ok
now. However, this laptop built in pointing device sends the mouse to one corner
of the screen and sticks and I can't shut it off from bios.  Ideally the installer would
just work without a mouse....


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From: ubuntu-users <ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com> on behalf of Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2020 7:53 AM
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Subject: Re: Trying to upgrade with do-release-upgrade failing

On Tue, 23 Jun 2020 at 13:35, Mike Marchywka <marchywka at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks.
> I've got an old windohs install from which I could scavenge a lot
> of space- dump things onto USB sticks. I could resize the sda3  partitition
>  if that is fairly safe and create a new one of at least 30gb.

FWIW, IME 18.04 -> 20.04 was smoother than 16.04 -> 18.04.

You could shrink your Windows drive remotely, probably, sure. You can
delete everything in
C:\WINDOWS\TEMP and C:\USERS\&yourusername\Local Settings\TEMP safely.
You can delete C:\PAGEFILE.SYS and C:\HIBERFIL.SYS -- Windows will
just recreate them next time it boots. Then shrink it -- so long as it
has a little space free, Windows will still boot if you need it.

I don't think this will work remotely, but you could boot a live USB
medium, mount the Windows drive, delete the stuff I mentioned, install
PARTIMAGE, and backup your whole Linux system onto the Windows
partition.  Take a full image backup then you can put it back if need
be.

Make backups of /home and /etc and maybe /var _as well_.


> If I get the Ubuntu  18  or 20.04 ISO
> is there an easy way to just install that on this new partition
> while running Ubuntu 11 ?

I defer to anyone from Canonical here but if you have 11.10 and you
install 18.04 over the top, I think it will leave /home alone and
recreate the user accounts in there on the new installation.

But you'll have to reinstall all your software.

> I've got the Bionic Beaver ISO somewhere and presumably I could
> put that on the new partition and update GRUB.

Yes, you could put them side-by-side, sure.
>
> df -T
> Filesystem    Type   1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda6     ext4    43257344  38242096   2817900  94% /
> udev      devtmpfs     1982436         4   1982432   1% /dev
> tmpfs        tmpfs      796204       964    795240   1% /run
> none         tmpfs        5120         0      5120   0% /run/lock
> none         tmpfs     1990504       100   1990404   1% /run/shm
> /dev/sda3  fuseblk   215523164 200436424  15086740  93% /dohs

Might help if you mounted your Windows drives too, so we can get an
idea of space on them.

Also, do a ``sudo apt clean`` -- you might get a bunch of free space back.


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