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Any ETA on how to upgrade from 19.3 to 20 ? Yes, The Official 20 release was on June 27. And also there was a Monthly News post on that day. It's in the blog, and the post is on this forum right beside this thread. But it says something like "we will spend the next 2 weeks focusing on the upgrade p...

You can use the Mint "Backup tool" for convenience here. It's installed by default you can search it in the main menu.

No root file system is defined. That means you have to define where you want the root of the file system to be located. For example you can double-click a line for a particular partition on a drive such as sdb and tell it to use ext4 and tell it to use / at this location. "/" means the root of the f...

I see that Russian post. One of the users just said forget about it, block the file, trick the script into thinking it is successful. And that will clear the problem from the package manager anyway. locate pips-sot30 then edit the prerm file by adding exit 0 to the first line of it, so it just makes...

Open Mint "Backup tool". Now see "Personal data" -> [ Back up now ]. You can save what you want, even the entire /home/username directory, including hidden files. But you need to run the other part of this tool also so any system-installed programs could be reinstalled on the new system. You can pic...

did clone the hd to external ssd usb drive. I should be able to copy back my /home/username No, that is incorrect, and sometimes doing that will make the system boot loop. Doing a copy like that from one major version to another major version is never just a standard that it is supposed to work lik...

For this type of thing you can use Mint "Backup tool", check in the menu.

just saying that talking about transferring data for new installs or even doing some safety backup with updates, the Mint "Backup tool" is there. -pretty sure there's a good solution for all the problems we can conjure up.

In Release and Announcements section again? I'd imagine Releases & Announcements would have a link to a blog entry. Great! So, if I look past that 1st Official sticky post that says "Upgrade instructions" then the next post will be that blog post talking about it? :lol: and probably called "How to ...

I have (or had) two well developed installs of windows on nvme disks that I had hoped to save :-(, maybe I can rig them back Sure you can. Set a particular device as the boot device, then run through the Windows bootloader repair operation mentioned as above, whether that's being able to boot direc...

Well. :lol: Let me correct my statement. Linux will run on almost any computer on the planet, even the ones in space. From the link you provided, all are for 64 bit machines! If you click a further link there that says all version then you can fine a 32 bit version if you like: https://linuxmint.com...

Linux will run on almost any computer on the planet, even the ones in space. ;) You will take more time trying to find some good quality and accurate and complete compatibility list, they used to be made and kept up 20 years ago but nobody does it any more. Usually we just check here using this meth...

What I do is make sure that any physical disk, if it has an operating system on it, then I make sure its grub is installed to that disk when installed. If it wasn't installed to that disk, then I boot into that system and correct it by reinstalling grub to that drive. Now each disk with a system can...

I don't really know the full details involved here, but I did see an article recently, in the light of the recent public protesting, and many commercial entities revising product naming or imagery, that github has made some changes to parts of their system and default naming schemes so I have a feel...

If we migrate from Tricia to Ulyana via a fresh install, and if we have been doing frequent backups using TimeShift, then will it suffice to do a restore from TimeShift? No. that is effectively migrating right back to Tricia. And in fact, the system might not boot after that, due to whatever change...

show the log file from Boot Repair, maybe someone will be able to see what is going on. Also, boot repair is already automatically installed in live sessions from Mint 19.2 onward.

My guess is that smurphos probably knows the real answer here, but until he responds, here's some possibly related info in case you are able to figure it out on your own and fix it. I don't know if spaces in the file name are presenting the problem there. In some cases that does present a problem th...

Alternately you can show us the exact contents of both of those files and you can get some precise advice. In this case you could just browse to those files and open them, you don't need to open as administrator to show us the content. It might be that you've added multiple extra repositories and on...

From the wiki, "Linux Mint is a community-driven Linux distribution based on Ubuntu or Debian" is referring to the fact that there are 2 variations of Mint. It was already mentioned above, but there should be a clear distinction of "Linux Mint" and "LMDE". Both are "Mint", and the first one is a for...

Great news! And I don't actually know how the stuff with /boot happens, but it seems to make sense. So in this case is it looking for where current /boot is mounted so that it could delete it and change it? I'm not sure if it will do that. It would seem, let's say on a really broken install where yo...