hosed etch upgrade

[Graham Seaman]

Hi,

I had a system which had been running updates from test (ie. etch) for a 
while and when etch was formally released like an idiot decided I could 
do the final upgrade without reading the upgrade documents...

Result: I rebooted before having upgraded the kernel (I'm on 
2.6.8-2-686) and so udev doesn't work and I have no network access (ie. 
no eth0). I decided the easiest way round this would be to do a kernel 
upgrade, but the machine also has no floppy drive so I've been burning 
CDs trying to get all the necessary dependencies over as I find the ones 
I've missed. I've now run out of CDs so about to set off to buy some 
more (unfortunately nowhere near here sells debian cd sets :-(

Currently I am trying to install linux-image-2.6.18-4-686, which 
requires a ramdisk creator, which I didn't have. As yaird has fewer 
nested dependencies than initramfs I went that way, but now get the 
error message during installation:

yaird error: destination /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-4-686.new already 
exists (fatal)

This error message persists when I remove the offending file. Does 
anyone have any ideas - or know if there is an easier approach to get my 
system back? (eg. some way to switch off udev and  get my network back 
manually)

Thanks!

Graham


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