Re: Problem with apt-get after enabling unstable tree

Liam and Ismael, Thanks a lot for your answers; I read the article http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html about apt pinning and set up my /etc/apt/preferences according to this -- great. Also, I used apt-show-versions to find the packages from unstable: backup:/mnt# apt-get remove gc

Problem with apt-get after enabling unstable tree

Hi everybody, I have a very basic problem and would be glad to be pointed into the right direction: Some time ago, I installed debian-sarge and was forced to install a version of samba that was only available in the unstable tree. Now that an updated version is already available in the stable tre

Re: Replacing boot drive: how to make a copy of it?

ndler wrote: On Sunday 03 September 2006 23:23, Marty wrote: Marty wrote: Kaspar Fischer wrote: Hi list, I need to replace my boot disk as it starts failing (with bad blocks). What is the easiest way to obtain, on a new harddrive (at least as large as the old one), an exact copy of the root

Replacing boot drive: how to make a copy of it?

Hi list, I need to replace my boot disk as it starts failing (with bad blocks). What is the easiest way to obtain, on a new harddrive (at least as large as the old one), an exact copy of the root file system and swap partition? Never touch a running system -- so my intention is to *copy* the dri

Re: Ext2/3 and too many badblocks?

On Sep 3, 2006, at 6:51 PM, Thibaut Paumard wrote: Independently of whatever any tool is telling you, consider this sound as the clock ticking the doom of your drive. Backup now. T. On Sep 3, 2006, at 4:57 PM, Christopher Pharo Glæserud wrote: 402 bad blocks are 402 too many any way. It me

Ext2/3 and too many badblocks?

Hi everybody, I have recently heard strange noises from one of my IDE harddrives and have then run fsck.ext2 -c -c /dev/hdb1 so that badblocks is executed. From the output in syslog I see that it has found 402 bad blocks, but only some 27 are listed in the filesystem: dumpe2fs -b /dev/hdb1