Before doing the dist-upgrade, DID you remember to apt-get update first? On 05/01/18 08:11 PM, TekBudda wrote: > Tried the RootDir approach & kept getting error reading cpu table > messages. Did find some instructions on the chroot (I think anyways) at > http://www.webupd8.org/2014/01/how-to-fix-non-bootable-ubuntu-system.html > > but no luck there as well. seemed to work, but look like there was an > issue with the cp portion & then when trying to launch update or upgrade > it said something about using older sources. did you remember to: apt-get update before doing:
apt-get dist-upgrade ? > > > > On 1/5/2018 5:52 PM, Neil Mayhew wrote: >> On 2018-01-05 05:19 PM, TekBudda wrote: >>> I am not sure if it is possible to run updates (that will likely fix >>> the issue) on the installed system from a Live USB or not. >> >> Yes, it is. Various places on the web say you can mount the internal >> drive and then use `sudo apt-get -o RootDir=MOUNTPOINT` to do >> `update`, `dist-upgrade` and so on. However, I haven't tried this >> myself yet. >> >> It's also possible to do full-on chroot, with `sudo chroot MOUNTPOINT` >> and then run `apt-get` as normal. However, for this to work well you >> should also bind-mount some virtual filesystems such as `/proc` and >> `/sys` onto the relevant places in the internal drive. I can give >> instructions for this if the `-o RootDir` approach doesn't work. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> clug-talk mailing list >> clug-talk@clug.ca >> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >> **Please remove these lines when replying > > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > clug-talk@clug.ca > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
