On Mon, 6 Jul 2015, phiscock@ee.ryerson.ca wrote:
Because Firefox kept locking up and various other things were out of date, I decided to upgrade to the latest version of Linux Mint. The upgrade seemed to work but resulted in a blank desktop, so I decided a complete re-install was required.
So I backed up the /home directory to an external USB hard drive, programmed a USB key with a Mint .iso and booted up into the latest Mint.
If you keep /home on a separate partition, you wouldn't have this problem. ...
So I decided that the simplest route was to re-install.
Then, for some reason, the USB key wouldn't boot. Fortunately, an old Knoppix CD did boot, establishing that boot from CD was still working. So I prevailed on my friend Gabriel to burn me an .iso on DVD, and that worked.
So, to my colleagues in TLUG, I ask: How would you deal with the re-location of /bin, assuming you didn't want to re-install?
PATH=$PATH:/path/to/bin Or: mv /path/to/bin / -- Chris F.A. Johnson, <http://cfajohnson.com>