On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 04:40:43AM +1100, Felix Karpfen wrote: > Package: upgrade-reports > Severity: critical > Justification: causes serious data loss > > I have submitted the report (details below) before. But, because I am new to > "reportbug, I incorrectly selected to report it under #609566. As a result, > my posting was filed and ignored. > > So, here is a copy of the posting - with additional information: > > I attempted to use the DVDs of the Official release of Debian 6.0 by > following the routines described in the release notes - chapter 4. > > Everything worked correctly until I got to Section 4.4.6. > > "apt-get dist-upgrade" found 607 packages to be upgraded, 753 packages to be > newly installed and 70 packages to be removed. It invited me to load the > first DVD, made all the changes to packages that were on that DVD and then > asked me to insert the second DVD. > > This command could not be carried out - for the following reason: > > When the dist-upgrade started the sym-link "/cdrom -> /dev/hdc" was correct. > But during the that stage of the "dist-upgrade, the mounted drive had been > renamed from /dev/hdc to "/dev/sr0". > > Since "/cdrom" still pointed to "/dev/hdc", the drive carriage could not be > opened.
Do you mean /dev/cdrom ? /cdrom is supposed to point to /media/cdrom, not to /dev/hdc. Did you try to fix the symlink and restart the upgrade ? (apparently your email carries an incorrect from: address). Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
