<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Greetings mythizens, maybe I'm being over cautious here but, rather than just run " dist-upgrade" ( runnung 0.28 interested in 0.29) I'd rather have a test environment to work/play in. I have a second 80 GB portion next to my 80 GB OS partition. Do I have to first install xenial on the second partition then restore the rsync backup, or is there a way to make the restore bootable?<div dir="auto"><br></div></div></blockquote><div>If your primary drive has two 80 GB partitions, sda1 sda2 and sda1 <= sda2, you can clone your install onto sda2 boot from that, mess it up, blow it away, clone back, etc. You'll have to boot into a live environment. I like to use partclone and the SystemRescueCD, personally.</div><div><br></div><div>partclone.extfs -s /dev/sda1 -b -o /dev/sda2 (no promises if syntax is exact)</div><div>update-grub</div><div>grub-install /dev/sda</div><div>reboot and select the OS on /dev/sda2.<br></div><div><br></div><div> Steve</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto"></div><div dir="auto">TIA Daryl</div></div>
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