I updated my aunts Linux Ubuntu. It hasn't been updated in many years, if ever.
After dowloading and instaling all the updates, it automatically restarted.
When it restarted, it went to memtest86. I figured I would just let it go (I know nothing of Linux), but it went for days.
I can't get away from memtest to the desktop.
What went wrong, and how can I fix it?
If your aunt likes Ubuntu, she'll love Linux Mint 7. It's based on Ubuntu but it contains all of the special files necessary to play media files.
Sorry, there is no quick fix for this. But there is good news. You can use the install (Live CD) to access your aunt's hard drive and save all her data files to an external storage device, like a thumb drive, before installing the new system.
I updated (not upgraded) through the recomended updated on the desktop.
Surely I can update without losing everything...
Sorry, I'm an XP user and was just trying to help her.
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No. Linux doesn't work that way. Sorry.
The problem is that the files you updated to were not meant for that version of Ubuntu. Those updates were specifically written for the current version.
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What you need to do is download and burn a new copy of a Linux distro, Ubuntu or Linux Mint. It will download as an ISO image. You burn the image to a CD and then boot from that disk.
You can use ImgBurn listed above to create the disk on a Windows machine.
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