I am not a happy camper. It is now 3:30 and I have just managed to get my new Ubuntu installation up and running. I should never have started the installation, but based on my experience with the previous version of Ubuntu, I thought it would be quick and easy. Apparently, I have not learned my lesson. About 40% of my “usual” packages won’t install. I’m pretty sure I’m using a stable version. I’ll have to figure this out over next month.
I would have quit long ago, but I have already made a backup of my personal files. They amount to 65GB. I know it sounds impossible, but there is a lot of duplication — old user accounts that I have “backed up” before. Now, at least, I have a back up of everything. The backup process took a whole day, and if I didn’t install Ubuntu immediately, I would have had to make another, newer backup before I overwrote the files. (It could have been incremental I suppose.) Three important lessons:
- Put personal files on a separate partition, so that you can install a new system under it without having to back up.
- Back up more frequently.
- Back up the /etc directory. There are just too many configuration options I now have to learn from scratch.