On 08/25/2015 12:56 PM, D. R. Evans wrote:
I am trying to upgrade my main desktop machine, but the process is halting with an error, after all the packages are downloaded and half an hour or so of actual installation:
...I learned many years ago that distribution upgrades were a recipe for disaster.
What you want is good backup and recovery knowledge, skills, tools, and equipment, so that you can backup your system, swap the system drive, do a fresh install of the new OS, and then restore your data. If it fails, you can always swap the old system drive back in while you try to figure out what went wrong with the new OS.
David