[vox-tech] Ubuntu 10.04 LTS upgrade woes

[Jeff Newmiller]

Shouldn't need to be any particular variety of live cd, I would think, to copy files.

"Bill Kendrick" <nbs at sonic.net> wrote:

>On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 10:55:40PM -0800, Alex Mandel wrote:
>> I can burn one for you in the morning. This is one reason why I do
>> separate partitions for / and /home.
>
>Cool, thanks.  And yeah, lesson learned.  :)
>
>
>> Have you tried an apt-get dist-upgrade with a force option from the
>> command line to see if it just needs to rerun or finish some stuff.
>My
>> upgrade along the same line went fine for my laptop a few months
>back.
>
>Well at this point I'm dropped into a root shell, disk is read-only,
>and things are borked (e.g., Vim doesn't run). So I figured a live CD
>would
>be the least frustrating situation to work off of.
>
>Thx!
>
>-bill!
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