[tde-users] Re: [users] r14-xdg-update?

said Michael via tde-users: | S'Okay, probably the easiest method is to place /home on a separate | partition and then do a 'clean' install while preserving /home. Here’s | some (crappy) docs I did on the process. | | https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?f=92&t=59308&p=587358#p5886… thanks. what i ended up doing (in the first hour) was use gparted on the new drive to make the dinky efi system partition in fat32, my ext4 linux boot partition,  and my enormous /home partition, also ext4. then i dd'ed the stuff over from the old partitions to the new. the issue was installing grub2 on the new drive. after going back and forth between usb live image boots and hard drive boot failures -- my mood was so bad that the neighbor's cat decided to stay away -- i told gparted to mark the linux ext4 boot partition as efi system, pointed the bios to it, and rebooted, after which a kubuntu logo came up, it chugged along for awhile, and in due course i was at the tde login. after which i got the familiar xdg errors and my nice happy tde desktop. and then i was able to open a terminal and install and update grub. what i'd learned is that chroot is a kind of cigar. next morning i awakened to a non-running computer and thought something in my install had gone terribly wrong. but got closer and was treated to the unmistakable aroma of fried electronics. fortunately, my cyberpower (mentioned by name in case you don't want to get one) UPS had journeyed to its eternal reward, and more fortunately i had a spare, an old APC whose battery i had not long ago replaced. all uptime since then! -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://www.athensnews.com/opinion/columns/the_view_from_mudsock_heights/