[EdLUG] Upgrade error

[Mark Turner]

One more thing to note is that I have piles of not so  old 1 Tbyte drives
which will need boot&nuked before I can give them away. perhaps I should
deploy a RPi to do it ..

We still do some deliveries to Portobello if you need a drive or two. (or
anyone else for that matter.) I keep looking at them and wondering what to
do with them as they were stripped from lawyers' machines before lockdown,
and I kept the newest drives and dismantled all the others for security.
Now I only use SSD's

If anyone wants drives ask me nicely and I can bring them to the next if
any pub meeting. (yes I don't do pub any more either)

Most of my other scrap hardware went to the recycling centres. Maybe we can
do another scrap and salvage day this year..

Let me know on this or by email (still the same).

Mark

On Mon, 2 Jan 2023 at 08:45, Mark Turner <replicant.mark at gmail.com> wrote:

> Andrew, I suggest looking at nix and nixos and keep all your files and
> important stuff on USB.
>
> when you get used to it its really handy but may take you a while to get
> your head round.
>
> I am looking at how flakes work - such an incredible useful tool, and
> putting the flake/nix thing into context by comparing with LFS (work in
> progress) it may take me some time as even with my 45 years computing
> experience, it still needs baby steps to use it properly and most of my
> time I have to do other manual stuff like dealing with customers family etc.
>
> The best thing is its ability to load configuration from web/cloud,
> process scripts from external sources including git or ftp and provide
> consistent environments for development.
>
> I first tried nixos when it was USB only and wrote back to the boot USB,
> have recently revisited and have it in my plan for kiosk computing. Its
> definitely worth looking into and learning for the future (though neither
> of us has many more working years left ..).
>
> Good Luck
> Mark
>
> On Sun, 1 Jan 2023 at 18:25, Dick Bain <dick.bain at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, 1 Jan 2023 at 17:32, Andrew Ramage <andrew.ramage.1963 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> That's the problem ... I get no text describing the problem.  For many
>>> months I have had problems updating my system.
>>>
>>> I would definitely change the Distro, I have been using Mint for at
>> least the last five years and have always been happy with updates but when
>> I upgrade I download the new ISO and do a re-install (my home directory is
>> a different partition, preserving all my data/settings)
>> I should add that I have only ever had relatively old second hand
>> hardware, currently an AMD dual core E1-2100 with  3719600 kB RAM and 500Gb
>> hdd
>> Dick
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