On Sunday, August 19, 2018 5:51:24 PM -04 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 19 August 2018 17:15:43 Eike Lantzsch wrote: > > On Sunday, August 19, 2018 10:37:05 PM -04 john doe wrote: > > > On 8/19/2018 9:40 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > Greetings all; > > > > > > > > I just installed stretch to a fresh 2T HD. letting it > > > > autopartition and format for separate /, swap, /var and /home > > > > partitions. But I didn't let it overwrite the grub on the 1st > > > > drive it was/is booting wheezy from. > > > > > > > > I figured I'd mount it to wheezy and copy over my personal stuff, > > > > like an email corpus well over 15GB reaching back to 2002. > > > > > > > > But I can't mount much of the drive, / is all that will actually > > > > mount, because the 2 versions of ext4 are incompatible, nearly all > > > > the mount and e2tools can't touch the installers ext4 file > > > > systems. > > > > > > > > For instance, its not mounted: > > > > gene@coyote:~$ e2fsck /dev/sdb8 > > > > e2fsck 1.42.5 (29-Jul-2012) > > > > /dev/sdb8 has unsupported feature(s): metadata_csum > > > > e2fsck: Get a newer version of e2fsck! > > > > > > > > And of course whats installed to wheezy is the latest available > > > > wheezy version of e2fsck. > > > > > > > > Whats the recommended way to do these mounts so I can maintain as > > > > much continuity as possible? > > > > > > Maybe using apt-pinning. > > > > > > In other words, installing the version of Stretch/Jessie on wheezy. > > > > > > On the wheezy host, can't you backupt on an external hardware? > > > > In those cases I usually boot a recent live-CD (or USB-stick) like > > KNOPPIX and mount and copy from there. > > I just rebooted to it, and I found a desktop interface that will wear out > a set of batteries in my mouse weekly because it takes at least 8 to 10 > clicks and some scroll wheel work just to find a #@%# terminal, and it > can't even add tabs to a different shell either! I didn't install > anything special for a desktop, took the default because I intended to > replace it with TDE asap, and going from 10 workspaces, 4 of which have > multi-tabbed (up to 7 tabs each) konsoles running on them, with a > pulldown text menu to run half the stuff I run on the other workspaces, > to a single window, single tasking system thats worse than the last > windows box I was asked to configure the networking on, was very > disheartening. So I added the trinity stuff to /etc/apt/sources.list.d > using mc to copy that from the old disk, changing the wheezy in the deb > line to stretch, and that did not get me the TDE desktop I've been using > for years, but did get me some sort of a warning window that was taller > than my screen, fussing that some repo I hadn't added, was duff. If > debian is trying to kill itself, it was a heck of a good start, not even > a windows user looking for something better would be impressed. > > The only thing that Just Worked was the networking, it took everything > for a static net and Just Worked on the reboot. That was a rather > pleasant surprise considering the only stretch based install on my > rock64's that works at all was armbian. None of the other arm|hf|64 > *bians will accept a gateway assignment except as as a route command > after a login. > > I'm burned out for today, my cataracts might have to be the next thing I > fix. With KNOPPIX to do such simple things as copying don't boot into the X-Window. On boot enter: knoppix 2 (look at the cheat code) and you have text only use mc if you must or want
Sorry but I don't have time to wade through rants ... All the best Eike
