Re-installing Linux

[luke11685]

So I guess it might be first step before re-installing Ubuntu Linux.

 

[bob466]

The first step is to have a backup of your system just in case something happens...Foxclone is very good.

The next step in to download and burn the ISO to a Flash Drive...then boot to it and install the Distro. Once you start installing...everything on that Drive will be wiped...so you can't go back.

 

[luke11685]

The first step is to have a backup of your system just in case something happens...Foxclone is very good.

The next step in to download and burn the ISO to a Flash Drive...then boot to it and install the Distro. Once you start installing...everything on that Drive will be wiped...so you can't go back. View attachment 24950

Can you tell me how to make backup,please?

 

[bob466]

I create an image of the whole system and store it on an External portable 1TB SSD.

To do that...download the Foxclone ISO from here...https://foxclone.org/ and burn it to a Flash Drive.

Plug in your External SSD or HDD...create a Folder and name it...now plug in your Foxclone Flash Drive and boot to it.
Once Foxclone boots to it's Desktop...Foxclone will scan your Drive.

Select the Drive to be backed up...Partitions to backup...you select all...select Destination Drive (will be your external SSD/HDD)...Destination Partition...this opens to the Folder you want it saved to...double click the Folder to open it and click...save to file...click OK...Foxclone will start creating the image to that Folder.

User Guide is here...https://foxclone.org/uguide.html

Here is my portable 1TB SSD with my Backups...

You can also try Redorescue...http://redorescue.com/ and Timeshift that I store Timeshift snapshots on another separate HDD but that's another story.

I might add...Foxclone is the best thing I've used and has never let me down but it's always best to use several image creating software just to be on the safe side.

By creating an image of your System...should anything happen...you delete something important or the worst your Drive fails...you put the image back on the same drive or a new one and nothing is lost...hope this helps.

 

[luke11685]

I create an image of the whole system and store it on an External portable 1TB SSD.

To do that...download the Foxclone ISO from here...https://foxclone.org/ and burn it to a Flash Drive.

Plug in your External SSD or HDD...create a Folder and name it...now plug in your Foxclone Flash Drive and boot to it.
Once Foxclone boots to it's Desktop...Foxclone will scan your Drive.

Select the Drive to be backed up...Partitions to backup...you select all...select Destination Drive (will be your external SSD/HDD)...Destination Partition...this opens to the Folder you want it saved to...double click the Folder to open it and click...save to file...click OK...Foxclone will start creating the image to that Folder.

User Guide is here...https://foxclone.org/uguide.html

Here is my portable 1TB SSD with my Backups...
View attachment 24957

You can also try Redorescue...http://redorescue.com/ and Timeshift that I store Timeshift snapshots on another separate HDD but that's another story.

I might add...Foxclone is the best thing I've used and has never let me down but it's always best to use several image creating software just to be on the safe side.

By creating an image of your System...should anything happen...you delete something important or the worst your Drive fails...you put the image back on the same drive or a new one and nothing is lost...hope this helps. View attachment 24958

Foxclone. Standard version or focal version?

 

[Mike-W0BTU]

Foxclone. Standard version or focal version?

What's the focal version? I use the standard version.

 

[AlphaObeisance]

This is a MUST

 

[luke11685]

This is a MUST

How to install it tell me even in further more details,please?

 

[AlphaObeisance]

How to install it tell me even in further more details,please?

All do respect, that is literally the ventoy website. It comes with all documentation to teach you how to install ventoy. Then, you only need one USB for multiple distros instead of one USB per distro.

 

[luke11685]

All do respect, that is literally the ventoy website. It comes with all documentation to teach you how to install ventoy. Then, you only need one USB for multiple distros instead of one USB per distro.

I guess that it's working like automatic(not exactly not at all manual)installer multiple operating systems,right?

 

[bob466]

Foxclone. Standard version or focal version?

Just use the standard version...I do and my Motherboard is about 18 mths old...I'm sure both work just fine.

You don't have to use Ventoy either...you can burn the Foxclone ISO to an empty Flash Drive with etcher.

If you wish to use Ventoy...just follow these instructions...

https://www.linux.org/threads/how-to-install-ventoy-in-linux-mint-the-easy-way-for-beginners.45229/

Good luck.

 

[luke11685]

But what if someone like me has older version of Microsoft Windows(legal copy genuine version both 32-bit including 64-bit of 8.1 it is on disc)or even older version of Ubuntu Linux(I forgot even the version numbers)I’m not even sure of how to even check it out)?