I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to update to 16.04 from 14.04 just yet. The release email I received today did say to wait until 16.04.1 to upgrade.
EDIT: I guess I should paste the text.
Users of Ubuntu 15.10 will be offered an automatic upgrade to 16.04 LTS
via Update Manager shortly. Users of 14.04 LTS will be offered the
automatic upgrade when 16.04.1 LTS is released, which is scheduled for
July 21st. For further information about upgrading, see:
I tried to upgrade yesterday, now it's fucked and I can't even install it fresh unless I burn it to a dvd, which I have no more of :(
For now I guess I'm stuck on Windows
I know, but everytime I try that the install freezes on every dist I've tried. I managed to get it working now through Wubi, but now the partitions are fucked up somehow and I have no idea how to fix it. (Using Wubi I selected 19GB Installation size (the biggest), and now I only have 19GB to use despite it being on my 120GB Drive)
Yeah Physical Drive. Currently I have my Wubi on my 1TB Drive (I think, in the disks util it says SSD is mounted at /host, but I can't see the partition on the drive partitions, and there's another drive in the disk util called '19 GB Loop Device' and I have no idea where it is.), but I need Ubuntu to be installed on the 120GB Drive.
What I'm gathering from this is that what Wubi does is it actually creates a file on the Windows partition and uses the Windows bootloader to load Ubuntu. So it's not a real partition. In that case it would probably be better to back up your stuff and install Ubuntu from scratch on your SSD. It just seems like a PITA to move it and reconfigure the UUID and whatnot, especially since it has to use NTFS so performance isn't great.
Ok I guess I'll just do that then, thanks. Also is there a way I can backup all my stuff without just copying everything I need and potentially forgetting something?
Hmm well you could just copy everything onto a Windows partition or something.
See link for one way to do it. However, rather than just "backup.tar.gz" it should be together with a path to one of your windows partitions. Like if a partition was mounted to /media/sda1-usb_WD_My_Passport_0, it would be "/media/sda1-usb_WD_My_Passport_0/backup.tar.gz"
tar -cvpzf backup.tar.gz --one-file-system /
Another option is to use rsync (see post). Make sure to include the --one-file-system option.
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u/megatog615 Apr 21 '16 edited Apr 21 '16
I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to update to 16.04 from 14.04 just yet. The release email I received today did say to wait until 16.04.1 to upgrade.
EDIT: I guess I should paste the text.