Den 2017-09-09 kl. 04:11, skrev Aere Greenway:
On 09/08/2017 07:22 PM, Mark F wrote:
On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 12:31 PM, Aere Greenway
<a...@dvorak-keyboards.com <mailto:a...@dvorak-keyboards.com>> wrote:
>>> The last time I had problems with dual booting was back in 12.04
days,
It's been a while since I tried to do that. But, I had the weirdest
problems. It seemed like my hard-drive became physically damaged due
to the install. I've seen reports like that. But, they seemed rare.
But, it happened to me twice over 7-8 years.
I got to the point I dreaded it. But, it's been 2-3 years. (I remember
I had to run boot-repair that last time.).
I would definitely back up.
Mark:
I'm sorry to hear of the problems you had.
I hope, however, that things have improved now. I can't speak for your
system, but it has been working for mine.
This sort of thing is the reason I have two system partitions for my
production systems.
I install into the old (now unused) partition, and can still boot from
the partition I was using before the install.
In the new system, I can copy data (including hidden (dot) files) from
the prior partition into the /home directory of the newly installed
system. And that copy is a fast copy (unlike it would be from an
external hard-drive).
When I am satisfied that the new system meets my needs, I just use it,
and stop using my former system, and it will be installed-into when a
newer system is needed months later.
But lately, for production systems, I usually just upgrade. That has
been working well for me in the past 6 or so years.
If the upgrade fails, I can install into another partition, and copy my
/home directory files from the partition that failed the upgrade, into
the newly-installed partition.
At least, that's what has been working for me.
--
Sincerely,
Aere
Hi Aere,
Thanks for sharing your method with two system partitions :-)
Best regards
Nio
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