I gave up on getting anything resolved tonight, so no worries there. My netbook doesn't have an optical drive, but I think I can do it via a flashdrive. Too tired to dig mine out tonight though. Backing up my data is a good plan. I can set that up tonight to run overnight, if I can get to the utility. K On Sep 26, 2012 12:21 AM, "Yaron" <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote: > Hmm. Not sure about actually getting the installation fixed right this > second, but can you make an Ubuntu installation CD and then boot to the > live Ubuntu and make sure you can access (and hopefully back up) all your > data? You might want to get all your important stuff backed up before you > try to fix anything. Worst case scenario, you then reinstall from scratch > and restore all your data. > > Quite likely backing up your homedir would be enough, and then restoring > it to a fresh installation. All your settings/bookmarks/whatever should be > in there. As worst case scenarios go, it's a pretty good one. > > On Wed, 26 Sep 2012, Kat Toomajian wrote: > > >> Hi everyone! >> >> My name is Kat. :) I decided that tonight would be a good night to upgrade >> to Ubuntu 12.04. I have done upgrades solo before, and haven't had any >> issues. The upgrade went fine, right up until the part where I started >> getting a bunch of notifications that said the packets were already >> installed. I thought maybe that was normal, clicked ok, and went on with >> the >> process. >> >> When I rebooted, I had no menu bars, no terminal, and no internet >> connection! Nooooooooo! I am in *way* over my head, and I really hope one >> of >> you fine folks can help me out! I make pretty awesome cookies... >> >> Help me, Obi-Wan Tclug! You are my only hope! >> >> Fingers crossed, >> Kat >> >> (PS: Acer Aspire One, model # ZG5, 1.5 GB RAM. Nothing fancy.) >> >> >> >> > > -Yaron > > -- > ______________________________**_________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/**mailman/listinfo/tclug-list<http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20120926/729a8fef/attachment.html>