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Hi Papaoskar,

papaoskar wrote: Hi Christian,
I was successful with a 16GB stick. It boots nicely, however I could persuade the stick to accept german language and keyboard. But no german for the system to apply system wide.

Did you try Install / Remove Languages in menu System > Preferences > Personal > Language Support > tab Language?

See change language settings to German in ubuntu MATE

papaoskar wrote: I have done the copy process according to your advice with the commands: cp -a * /mnt . The copy command stops when it comes to /proc - directory. Too many errors and then it stops.
How about producing an img file from the stick and then dumping that img to /dev/sdb8 ? Perhaps I have to go to ubuntu 12.4 and do the copying from there?

Could you please try rsync?

Please boot Ubuntu 12.04.5 and mount /dev/sdb8 and the ubuntu MATE 16.04 root partition on your USB thumb drive. After that please try out the command rsync.

For example:

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   sudo mkdir /mnt2

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   sudo mount /dev/sdd2 /mnt2

   (if that's the ubuntu MATE 16.04 root partition on your USB thumb drive)

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   sudo mount /dev/sdb8 /mnt

   (the new root partition)

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   sudo rsync -av --progress /mnt2/ /mnt/

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   umount /mnt /mnt2

Thanks in advance,

Christian

Hi Christian,
many thanks for your patience and tips. I could solve my problem by a modified cp command.
As a proof I attach a screen picture: My Mate 16.04 from /dev/sda8 ! To be on the safe side I copied /dev/sda8 to /dev/sdb8 with ubuntu 12.o4.
The language problem was that one can drag down the top languages until German appears in the top line. My fault was to try to drag it up. That did not work! Now I know the trick. See picture.
BTW this was written on Mate 16.04 !!

papaoskar wrote:I could solve my problem by a modified cp command.

Could you please post your modified cp command?

xeno74 wrote:

papaoskar wrote:I could solve my problem by a modified cp command.

Could you please post your modified cp command?

Hi Christian.
Hopefully I remember from yesterday late correctly:
Start Ubuntu12.04
sudo su
mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sdb8
mount -t ext4 /dev/sdb8 /mnt
cp -a /media/Mate-1604-sda8/* /mnt

I hope that this correctly recalled. I have not proofed /dev/sdb8 as root directory. Still to be done.

papaoskar wrote: Hi Christian.
Hopefully I remember from yesterday late correctly:
Start Ubuntu12.04
sudo su
mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sdb8
mount -t ext4 /dev/sdb8 /mnt
cp -a /media/Mate-1604-sda8/* /mnt

I hope that this correctly recalled. I have not proofed /dev/sdb8 as root directory. Still to be done.

Thanks a lot for your explanation!

Hi Christian,
Today I can confirm that booting from /dev/sda8 as well from /dev/sdb8 is possible!
However, keeping both systems at the same level regarding settings is a lot of work.
Which directories can I copy from one to another for that purpose?
Do you know of a program like freefilesync for Mate?
Are there known problems with updating the system? I get errors with the apt-souces.list .
How should the apt-sources.list look like?
Filezilla works nicely in my home network and abroad.

Hi Papaoskar,

papaoskar wrote:Hi Christian,
Today I can confirm that booting from /dev/sda8 as well from /dev/sdb8 is possible!

Great!

papaoskar wrote: However, keeping both systems at the same level regarding settings is a lot of work.

Not really. You have to update both systems sometimes. More not.

papaoskar wrote: Which directories can I copy from one to another for that purpose?

Maybe the directories Documents, Music, Pictures or something like that.

papaoskar wrote: Do you know of a program like freefilesync for Mate?

Yes, I do. Please try rsync.

papaoskar wrote: Are there known problems with updating the system? I get errors with the apt-souces.list .

Could you please post the error messages?

Thanks,

Christian

Hi All,

I have great news for you!

Spectre660 released a new image of ubuntu Mate 16.04 LTS for Northern Island graphics cards today.

Download: Ubuntu-Mate_16.04-X1000-NI-3.img.7z

Please test it.

Many thanks to Spectre660.

Cheers,

Christian

papaoskar wrote: However, keeping both systems at the same level regarding settings is a lot of work.

Or do you mean the system settings like font size, themes, network settings etc?

-- Christian

Hi All,

Spectre660 released the Southern Island image of ubuntu MATE 16.04 LTS today.

Download: Ubuntu-Mate_16.04-X1000-SI-3.img.7z

Many thanks to Spectre660 for the SI image.

Cheers,

Christian