[TriLUG] New disk woes ( 13th )

[Brian McCullough via TriLUG]

On Sun, Aug 14, 2022 at 11:18:23AM -0400, Bill Weinel wrote:
> 
> Hi Brian,
> 
> Sorry to hear about your installation troubles...

That's life, isn't it?


> I saw in some previous messages some had recommended using dd to copy disks.
> While that works, you get minimal to no feedback until the dd task
> completes. If it fails, you get to try again. :-(?? For future reference, I

I specifically did not use DD, because I wanted the content, not the
underlying format.



> would recommend using Clonezilla for this task. It's free, it provides
> excellent status information, and it does a much faster job of imaging your
> hard drive to either other other hard drive, or to an image file for storage
> and backup purposes. 

Thank you for the recommendation.


> However, starting with a fresh install on a new drive is really the best way
> of doing things... It gets rid of the old O/S configuration files which are
> no longer used and cleans up your operating system environment. Also, by
> using a new drive for the install, you still have the old drive available to
> retrieve any needed data and to keep as a backup.
> 
> BTW, there were some significant application changes between 20.04 and
> 22.04. One major difference is the way Firefox runs. In previous systems

Yes, I have been reading that, here.

I ran into the Snap "problem" with an earlier version of Ubuntu, which I
chose not to use.


I tend to prefer Debian over Ubuntu, because it seems a little less
overbearing.

I think that I will also look at Steve's suggestion.



> Creating USB installation sticks can also be a problem depending upon how
> they are written. 

I usually use DD for that.  Just write the ISO to the USB stick.



> I recommend using Balena Etcher to build an installer USB
> stick, since it seems to produce a bootable USB installation stick every
> time.?? 

Thank you for this second recommendation.




Brian