Greetings,
After attempting to do changeover from Ubtunu 6.06 to Debian "Etch" by
changing sources.list and doing a #apt-get dist-upgrade, I ended up
having to grab the "net-install" image and do the installation that way.
I ran into several problems that become hard to overcome. Some crut
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 12:49:20PM +1030, Stef Daniels VK5HSX wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I have got several Debian installations, however, my desktop
> machine has Ubuntu 6.06 installed. What I wish to know is if there is an
> easy way to change installations (without actually going through the
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 01:50:55AM -0500, Angelo Bertolli wrote:
> Stef Daniels VK5HSX wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I have got several Debian installations, however, my desktop
> > machine has Ubuntu 6.06 installed. What I wish to know is if there is an
> > easy way to change installations (
Stef Daniels VK5HSX wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I have got several Debian installations, however, my desktop
> machine has Ubuntu 6.06 installed. What I wish to know is if there is an
> easy way to change installations (without actually going through the
> install) by changing the repositories an
On Wednesday 24 January 2007 18:19, Stef Daniels VK5HSX wrote:
> I have got several Debian installations, however, my desktop
> machine has Ubuntu 6.06 installed. What I wish to know is if there is an
> easy way to change installations (without actually going through the
> install) by changin
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 12:49:20PM +1030, Stef Daniels VK5HSX wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I have got several Debian installations, however, my desktop
> machine has Ubuntu 6.06 installed. What I wish to know is if there is an
> easy way to change installations (without actually going through the
I did the switcheroo with an apt-get update and an apt-get dist-upgrade. I had to kill/dispose of a few packages and reload them, but (thanks to dselect pointing out "obsolete" packages) it wasn't all that difficult. A final cleansing using debfoster, a replacement kernel to get rid of the malfun
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 17:01:30 +
Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wednesday, 11 January 2006 at 10:03:34 -0600, Kent West wrote:
> > Jay Zach wrote:
> > >Brooks R. Robinson wrote:
> [...]
> > >>I recently purchased a new fancy schmancy Dell a couple of months ago,
> > >>and I have b
Kent West wrote:
Jay Zach wrote:
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Brooks R. Robinson wrote:
Greetings oh most knowledgeable list,
I recently purchased a new fancy schmancy Dell a couple of months ago,
and I have been delinquent in installing Linux on it. So, I recently
purch
On Wednesday, 11 January 2006 at 10:03:34 -0600, Kent West wrote:
> Jay Zach wrote:
> >Brooks R. Robinson wrote:
[...]
> >>I recently purchased a new fancy schmancy Dell a couple of months ago,
> >>and I have been delinquent in installing Linux on it. So, I recently
> >>purchased an additional har
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 10:03:34AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> Jay Zach wrote:
>
> >
> >If you have your /home directory mounted on a separate partition (I HIGHLY
> >recommend this), you can simply install debian, and mount your ubuntu
> >/home as
> >your /debian home.
> >
>
> Except that he's alr
Mike Bird wrote:
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 08:03, Kent West wrote:
As I understand it, Brooks, Ubuntu is close enough to Debian that a
conversion is possible. Yes, edit your sources.list and do an
update/dist-upgrade; you may have to uninstall some stuff along the way
and then reinstall it.
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 08:03, Kent West wrote:
>
> As I understand it, Brooks, Ubuntu is close enough to Debian that a
> conversion is possible. Yes, edit your sources.list and do an
> update/dist-upgrade; you may have to uninstall some stuff along the way
> and then reinstall it.
Ubuntu recomp
Brooks R. Robinson wrote:
Greetings oh most knowledgeable list,
I recently purchased a new fancy schmancy Dell a couple of months ago,
and I have been delinquent in installing Linux on it. So, I recently
purchased an additional hard drive and attempted to put Debian on it
(as God intended)
Jay Zach wrote:
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Brooks R. Robinson wrote:
Greetings oh most knowledgeable list,
I recently purchased a new fancy schmancy Dell a couple of months ago,
and I have been delinquent in installing Linux on it. So, I recently
purchased an additional
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Brooks R. Robinson wrote:
> Greetings oh most knowledgeable list,
>
> I recently purchased a new fancy schmancy Dell a couple of months ago,
> and I have been delinquent in installing Linux on it. So, I recently
> purchased an additional hard drive
Good morning!
Brooks R. Robinson wrote:
Greetings oh most knowledgeable list,
Now for the question: Can I, without too much heartburn, upgrade my
install the Etch or Sid? Is it as simple as changing my sources.list,
doing and apt-get update and an apt-get dist-upgrade? I'm sure I'll end
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