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Trying to switch from older Ubuntu distro to newest Ubuntu Cinnamon. All files are on an external HDD that has several partitions. Device is sdc. The older Ubuntu is on sdc5 & sdc6. Grub 2 is on...

Created 2 partition out of sdc7. Installed Ubuntu Cinnamon mount point / on sdc8 and /home on sdc7. I was at a loss as to how or where to put the boot files so I used the command ubiquity-b to skip...

boot-repair-4ppa2075 [20240323_1555]

============================== Boot Info Summary ===============================

=> Grub2 (v2.00) is installed...

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
1 package can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see it.
W: Failed to fetch...

Not sure how to do the boot repair as you suggest. I believe that when I finally do install, I have the option to format the specified partition as I choose. Thanks fr the reply

I have a 1 TB USB ext HDD. I created a partition on it sdc 7 to install Ubuntu Cinnamon on. I already have a ubuntu based disto installed om sdc5 & 6. Grub appears to be installed as I get a...

Maybe I confused myself as I have another post in this forum called "new install". My main machine is a Win 7 laptop. I have an external HDD I bought for backup. The external HDD is what is shown...

I suppose I could make an backup image of the drive and then do what I want with the drive and install the image.

I shrank a partition I was planning to use for my Ububtu Cinnamon install. The original partition was 849GB. I shrank it by 60GB. It took hours. I had to leave the PC on overnight and when I came...

Strange, I submitted a reply yesterday and do not see it. Anyway, my laptop is Legacy BIOS. I plan to slowly migrate to the newer install which I have not done yet. I would keep the old install...

I got the distro from here: https://ubuntu.com/desktop/flavours. My system is a Dell laptop running Windows 7 on the main HDD. This was purchased in 2012, but may be older. I am pretty sure that...

I plan to install Ububtu Cinnamon on my external HDD. I have a Ibuntu based distribution already installed on this device. This install already has a boot, root and a home partition. I am going to...

Used the last suggestion by SeijiSensei. Not sure if I created a mount point or not. I was able copy the files I wanted to the USB folder I created by copying them from another place and opening...

Using a distro based on Ubuntu 18.04. I recently formatted a USB drive in EXT4. I am using it for Timeshift and backing up other files that I wish to reuse when I upgrade to version. I am however...

Thanks that worked perfectly the 1st time.

Thanks for the reply, I will give it a try when I feel courageous.

How might I get my mouse wheel to scroll more than 1 line at a time.

Thanks

Thought I posted a reply here, but does not seem to show up. Anyway, thanks for the reply, it was a little too techy for me. I was going to do a repair with a Windows CD, but found elsewhere where...

I use a USB HDD to boot into an installed Linux distro. My distro is based on Ubuntu 18.04. When I do not want to use Win 7, I shutdown and plug in the USB HDD. No problems until yesterday when...