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For Willy: A moving experience

 

I now know more than I ever expected about Linux in trying to move my current Linux drive to a new one with twice the capacity. Clonezilla worked fine in cloning the partitions to the new one. Turns out that was not enough as more voodoo needed like fixing the grub, setting new GUIDs for the new partitions, MBR stuff, etc.?? I also found that I had 15GB of old image versions in my current root.? There was an one line command that took care of those.

It also broke the login to the old installation but that was easily fixed so back to normal.? The one problem I found was in a tutorial for moving to a new drive on Ubuntu had some ambiguous and incomplete information in the later instruction as if the person writing sorta gave up at that point.? We see that a lot in tech these days.? Some of the worst developer documentation (if you can even call it that) comes from Apple.? You need to rely on third party blogs and tutorial videos to fill in the gaps.? What do all those people at Apple do for their paychecks?
 

And if first you don't succeed try, try again.? Success using another ploy so now I can use the bigger new drive.? The simple solution was to clone the old drive entering not by partition to the new one then delete the data partition and clone that partition to a larger one on the new drive.? However I may just format the new drive again and repartition it to what I actually wanted and make sure the MBR table is up front (that's what didn't work with the first try and what the second try did).

On 2/21/21 11:21 AM, Bhairitu via groups.io wrote:
I now know more than I ever expected about Linux in trying to move my current Linux drive to a new one with twice the capacity. Clonezilla worked fine in cloning the partitions to the new one. Turns out that was not enough as more voodoo needed like fixing the grub, setting new GUIDs for the new partitions, MBR stuff, etc.?? I also found that I had 15GB of old image versions in my current root.? There was an one line command that took care of those.

It also broke the login to the old installation but that was easily fixed so back to normal.? The one problem I found was in a tutorial for moving to a new drive on Ubuntu had some ambiguous and incomplete information in the later instruction as if the person writing sorta gave up at that point.? We see that a lot in tech these days.? Some of the worst developer documentation (if you can even call it that) comes from Apple.? You need to rely on third party blogs and tutorial videos to fill in the gaps.? What do all those people at Apple do for their paychecks?
WillyTex
 

On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 01:21 PM, Bhairitu wrote:
a tutorial for moving to a new drive on Ubuntu had some ambiguous and incomplete information in the later instruction as if the person writing sorta gave up at that point.
After reading reviews I ordered this USB and the PC booted to it. I formatted the drive and made it all Ubuntu. So, bye-bye Windows 10! LoL!

Ubuntu Linux 16.04 Bootable 8GB USB Flash Drive.
WillyTex
 

On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 01:21 PM, Bhairitu wrote:
Some of the worst developer documentation (if you can even call it that) comes from Apple.
You show me 100 IT employees and I'll show you 99 idiots at the keyboard. We worked on the Apple campus in Austin for exactly one week and quit - it was kids, crazy, pandemonium! YMMV.
WillyTex
 

On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 11:01 AM, WillyTex wrote:
After reading reviews I ordered this USB and the PC booted to it.
Amazon reviews:

"My 7 year old HP laptop was running so slow with Windows 10. It seemed that with every Win 10 update it got slower and slower. I was getting tired of waiting for Chrome or Edge to load. It would take 2 or 3 minutes for my laptop to wake up after being in sleep mode. I got fed up with waiting and waiting so I decided to take the plunge and try Ubuntu Linux. I was delighted to find that I could boot Ubuntu right from the USB drive without installing it. I was so surprised to find that Ubuntu found all of the hardware on my system. EVERYTHING WORKED from video to mouse to my WIFI.

All I had to do was type in my wireless password and WOOLAH, I was on the internet! I was still a little skeptical so I decided to install it with a Dual Boot setup so I could boot either Windows or Ubuntu at startup. The installation was so easy. I didn't have to mess with any drivers, Ubuntu even found my wireless printer and installed it without any fuss. I was up and running in less than 15 minutes. There is a slight learning curve but found that after a week of using Ubuntu I was so comfortable with it that I completely removed Windows 10 from my hard drive.

I would recommend getting the "Getting Started with Ubuntu 16.04" user's guide which helped me tremendously understand the differences between Windows and Ubuntu, and answers many questions beginners might have. Ubuntu comes with a ton of free software including a complete Office Suite that has all of the functionality of Microsoft Office. Just in case you have any windows software that is not available in Ubuntu, there is a Windows emulator that will allow you to run just about any windows software. THE BEST THING about Ubuntu is that it is FAST! My 7 year old laptop that has only 4GB of ram runs faster than it did when it was brand new with Windows 7 which came preinstalled.

This is because Windows is Bloated with all kinds of unnecessary code which makes it very inefficient. Ubuntu on the other hand, loads almost entirely into my 4GB of ram making it very fast because there is very little swapping going on. I am completely satisfied with Ubuntu and truly feel it is better than Windows, at least for my purposes, but you will have to try it to believe it."
 

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On 2/25/21 9:01 AM, WillyTex via groups.io wrote:
On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 01:21 PM, Bhairitu wrote:
a tutorial for moving to a new drive on Ubuntu had some ambiguous and incomplete information in the later instruction as if the person writing sorta gave up at that point.
After reading reviews I ordered this USB and the PC booted to it. I formatted the drive and made it all Ubuntu. So, bye-bye Windows 10! LoL!

Ubuntu Linux 16.04 Bootable 8GB USB Flash Drive.

Hope you didn't make it 16.04 because it's no longer supported.? Do at least 18.04 LTS.? I still have 16.04 but my project was to update to 18.04 and I wanted a bigger boot partition.? And I've seen complaints about 20.x so be careful about it. LTS = Long Term Support.

You can put Linux (any flavor) on about any USB drive:
 

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I'm on try #3 of getting Ubuntu Studio (XFCE) configured the way I want on my 2TB drive.? #2 worked but I couldn't expand the partitions.? Now I have the partitions the way I want but need to do a little more work to get it to boot right.? But that is probably just editing the fstab so it can find the home partition.? More size for the boot partition was necessary for an update to 18.04 LTS.? Linux does weird things like keeping old boot images around and there was 15GB of them in the old boot partition. @_@

I have run lots of different Linux distros off USB sticks.

On 2/25/21 10:58 AM, WillyTex via groups.io wrote:

On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 11:01 AM, WillyTex wrote:
After reading reviews I ordered this USB and the PC booted to it.
Amazon reviews:

"My 7 year old HP laptop was running so slow with Windows 10. It seemed that with every Win 10 update it got slower and slower. I was getting tired of waiting for Chrome or Edge to load. It would take 2 or 3 minutes for my laptop to wake up after being in sleep mode. I got fed up with waiting and waiting so I decided to take the plunge and try Ubuntu Linux. I was delighted to find that I could boot Ubuntu right from the USB drive without installing it. I was so surprised to find that Ubuntu found all of the hardware on my system. EVERYTHING WORKED from video to mouse to my WIFI.

All I had to do was type in my wireless password and WOOLAH, I was on the internet! I was still a little skeptical so I decided to install it with a Dual Boot setup so I could boot either Windows or Ubuntu at startup. The installation was so easy. I didn't have to mess with any drivers, Ubuntu even found my wireless printer and installed it without any fuss. I was up and running in less than 15 minutes. There is a slight learning curve but found that after a week of using Ubuntu I was so comfortable with it that I completely removed Windows 10 from my hard drive.

I would recommend getting the "Getting Started with Ubuntu 16.04" user's guide which helped me tremendously understand the differences between Windows and Ubuntu, and answers many questions beginners might have. Ubuntu comes with a ton of free software including a complete Office Suite that has all of the functionality of Microsoft Office. Just in case you have any windows software that is not available in Ubuntu, there is a Windows emulator that will allow you to run just about any windows software. THE BEST THING about Ubuntu is that it is FAST! My 7 year old laptop that has only 4GB of ram runs faster than it did when it was brand new with Windows 7 which came preinstalled.

This is because Windows is Bloated with all kinds of unnecessary code which makes it very inefficient. Ubuntu on the other hand, loads almost entirely into my 4GB of ram making it very fast because there is very little swapping going on. I am completely satisfied with Ubuntu and truly feel it is better than Windows, at least for my purposes, but you will have to try it to believe it."

 

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On 2/25/21 9:15 AM, WillyTex via groups.io wrote:
On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 01:21 PM, Bhairitu wrote:
Some of the worst developer documentation (if you can even call it that) comes from Apple.
You show me 100 IT employees and I'll show you 99 idiots at the keyboard. We worked on the Apple campus in Austin for exactly one week and quit - it was kids, crazy, pandemonium! YMMV.
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The last year has shown that most tech company employees cannot work remotely from home.? Most lack the discipline to do so.? I was successful at it and brought in-house in the 1990s by the company I did contract work for to get their offsite programmers in line.? The solution was to have them come to the office to work.? The key to working at home is to get all your errands and stuff done first in the day then you don't have those hanging over your head as you work the rest of the day.

BTW, I should have mentioned you can update to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS from the Ubuntu Software Center item in the Systems menu.? But it should have already popped up if you installed Ubuntu to your PC.

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