Jessie>Stretch Update Challenges

2016-09-01 Thread Paul Gallaway
Actually, this didn't go too badly. Better than expected even. I have two systems I upgraded. Ones a desktop I rarely use and it went perfect so I went for it on my HTPC/mythtv/Steam system as well. Here's the process I followed: Changed my sources in /etc/apt/sources.list from jessie to stretch.

Re: Release File Expired on: csclub.uwaterloo.ca

2010-09-24 Thread Paul Gallaway
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 7:38 AM, Mike Viau wrote: > > Hello, > > I am not really sure to whom I should inform, but it is my understanding that > mirror.csclub.waterloo.ca is (or at least was) an official Debian mirror in > Canada. > > I am in no way affiliated with the Waterloo university or awa

Re: Where did ctrl-alt-F1 go?

2009-09-15 Thread Paul Gallaway
> I find myself wondering if there's some setting (about the availability > of ctrl-alt-F1) that has a different default value, and I have to find it > and change it. You didn't say but did you try another TTY? ctrl+alt+F2 through F4 (maybe up to F6?). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-req

Re: 2.6.30 (Squeeze): no hda1 no sda1

2009-09-11 Thread Paul Gallaway
> Thanks Paul. I think I tried to edit /etc/fstab using vi from busybox but > when I invoked it the file came up empty and there was a read-only > indication somewhere. That's probably because your editing the fstab that exists only in the minimal kernel shipping with the ramdisk (hopefully I have

Re: 2.6.30 (Squeeze): no hda1 no sda1

2009-09-11 Thread Paul Gallaway
> I need just a bit of reassurance because I really don't want to paint myself > into a corner. If I start playing around with fstab won't that jeopardise my > ability to boot into the 2.6.26 kernel? If it doesn't effect 2.6.26 then I > don't understand how editing fstab would make a difference to

Re: 2.6.30 (Squeeze): no hda1 no sda1

2009-09-11 Thread Paul Gallaway
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > Hi all, > I'm runny Debian Testing (Squeeze) and have been for years. Since linux- > image-2.6.30-686 has now trickled down to Squeeze, I thought it was time to > upgrade from 2.6.26. I installed linux-image-2.6.30-1-686 (keeping my old > ke