I'm in the middle of the upgrade from lenny to squeeze. I have a partially working system. I've been following the instruction ins the release notes, http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ ch-upgrading.en.html and I've gotten as far as upgrading the kernel and udev.
hendrik@april:~$ uname -a Linux april 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 14 09:42:28 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/ Linux hendrik@april:~$ Both seemed to go well, and I'm now booting into a squeeze kernel and seem to have no problems identifying my partitions correctly and my netwerk is coming up properly, evidenced by me being able to post this message using Pan. But I'm stuck. The next step is to issue apt-get dist-upgrade but I can't figure out where to type this in. I can log in using gdm, but terminals found there may expire during the upgrade, leaving everything in an inconsistent state. And I can't use cntl-alt-F1 to get a text console, because all I get is a blank black screen. Is gdm taking over the text consoles and disallowing them? How do I get my text consoles back so I can proceed with the rest of the upgrade? Or is there some devious trick I'm missing? Will an ssh connection from another machine survive the upgrade process, for example? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/iultbp$ajl$1...@dough.gmane.org
