On 7/5/22 04:36, Miroslav Skoric wrote:
On 7/3/22 7:51 PM, David Christensen wrote:
On 7/3/22 02:31, Miroslav Skoric wrote:
Yesterday I attempted to upgrade Compaq Presario CQ56 laptop to
buster. I followed instructions in 'Chapter 4. Upgrades from Debian 9
(stretch)', so all went well with a minimal upgrade (apt-get
upgrade). When it finished, I went to the main part of the upgrade
(apt full-upgrade). It ran well until some 40-45% and then started
complaining about lack of disk space.
The KISS approach is to check in your system configuration files to a
version control system, back up your data, take an image of the OS
drive, remove the OS drive, insert a blank OS drive, do a fresh
install, check out the old system configuration files to a side
directory, configure the new OS instance, restore your data, and
validate everything.
Seems as a drastic solution :-)
Will try to cure this one, and if things go wrong I can always do a
fresh install.
For me, Debian is tool that I *use* for both personal and professional
work. I have no need or desire to learn the internals of Debian beyond
how to configure and operate the services and applications I need.
Other people depend upon myself and my systems. Unplanned downtime and
data loss are unacceptable. My goal is professional system
administration of all of the networks and systems I maintain.
When I broke my systems years ago (Linux and otherwise), I used to try
and "find the needle in the haystack". This took an unpredictable
amount of time with unpredictable results. I had little confidence in
the process or in the outcome. So, I choose to invest my learning in
configuration management, disaster preparedness, and development/
operations. I bought books, courses, additional computers, spare parts,
hardware and software tools, etc.. I wrote shell and Perl scripts to
facilitate system administration chores, including those I outlined
above. This has proven to be a much better approach. The last time I
broke my daily driver, it was fully operational again within a few hours.
Put another way, my computers were once pets; now they are cattle:
https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=cattle%20vs.%20pets
David
p.s. Do a fresh install of Debian 11.
