Yeah, flashdrive, sorry, my mind was in... well, 10 years ago I guess (: if you can boot from a flashdrive with enough space you can probably just bulk-copy your homedir over to it. On Wed, 26 Sep 2012, Kat Toomajian wrote: > > I gave up on getting anything resolved tonight, so no worries there. My > netbook doesn't have an optical drive, but I think I can do it via a > flashdrive. Too tired to dig mine out tonight though. > > Backing up my data is a good plan. I can set that up tonight to run > overnight, if I can get to the utility. > > K > > On Sep 26, 2012 12:21 AM, "Yaron" <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote: > Hmm. Not sure about actually getting the installation fixed > right this second, but can you make an Ubuntu installation CD > and then boot to the live Ubuntu and make sure you can access > (and hopefully back up) all your data? You might want to get all > your important stuff backed up before you try to fix anything. > Worst case scenario, you then reinstall from scratch and restore > all your data. > > Quite likely backing up your homedir would be enough, and then > restoring it to a fresh installation. All your > settings/bookmarks/whatever should be in there. As worst case > scenarios go, it's a pretty good one. > > On Wed, 26 Sep 2012, Kat Toomajian wrote: > > > Hi everyone! > > My name is Kat. :) I decided that tonight would be a > good night to upgrade > to Ubuntu 12.04. I have done upgrades solo before, > and haven't had any > issues. The upgrade went fine, right up until the > part where I started > getting a bunch of notifications that said the > packets were already > installed. I thought maybe that was normal, clicked > ok, and went on with the > process. > > When I rebooted, I had no menu bars, no terminal, > and no internet > connection! Nooooooooo! I am in *way* over my head, > and I really hope one of > you fine folks can help me out! I make pretty > awesome cookies... > > Help me, Obi-Wan Tclug! You are my only hope! > > Fingers crossed, > Kat > > (PS: Acer Aspire One, model # ZG5, 1.5 GB RAM. > Nothing fancy.) > > > > > > -Yaron > > -- > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > -Yaron --