Re: Ugrade from Lenny to Squeeze on old PC Box - fsck died with exit status 8

2010-05-30 Thread Paul Chany
Celejar writes: > On Fri, 28 May 2010 10:30:03 +0200 > Paul Chany wrote: > >> Andrei Popescu writes: >> >> > On Fri,28.May.10, 10:07:38, Paul Chany wrote: >> >> Sven Joachim writes: >> >> > >> >> > The new kernel is probably using libata instead of the old IDE >> >> > drivers, which means tha

Re: Ugrade from Lenny to Squeeze on old PC Box - fsck died with exit status 8

2010-05-30 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 28 May 2010 10:30:03 +0200 Paul Chany wrote: > Andrei Popescu writes: > > > On Fri,28.May.10, 10:07:38, Paul Chany wrote: > >> Sven Joachim writes: > >> > > >> > The new kernel is probably using libata instead of the old IDE drivers, > >> > which means that your hard disk is called /de

Re: Ugrade from Lenny to Squeeze on old PC Box

2010-05-28 Thread Tom H
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 9:15 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Stephen Powell put forth on 5/28/2010 8:18 AM: > >> I've had so many problems with migrations that I don't do them >> anymore. > > My experience thus far is the exact opposite Stephen.  I have one server that > I've in-place upgraded from Woo

Re: Ugrade from Lenny to Squeeze on old PC Box

2010-05-28 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 28 May 2010 21:15:54 -0400 (EDT), Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Stephen Powell put forth on 5/28/2010 8:18 AM: >> >> I've had so many problems with migrations that I don't do them >> anymore. > > My experience thus far is the exact opposite Stephen. I have one server that > I've in-place upgrade

Re: Ugrade from Lenny to Squeeze on old PC Box

2010-05-28 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Stephen Powell put forth on 5/28/2010 8:18 AM: > I've had so many problems with migrations that I don't do them > anymore. My experience thus far is the exact opposite Stephen. I have one server that I've in-place upgraded from Woody through Lenny, including hardware upgrades along the way (NIC,

Re: Ugrade from Lenny to Squeeze on old PC Box - fsck died with exit status 8 - SOLVED

2010-05-28 Thread Paul Chany
Sven Joachim writes: > On 2010-05-28 09:26 +0200, Paul Chany wrote: > >> Checking file systems...fsck from util-linux-ng 2.16.2 >> fsck.ext3: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/hda6 > > The new kernel is probably using libata instead of the old IDE drivers, > which means that you

Re: Ugrade from Lenny to Squeeze on old PC Box

2010-05-28 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 27 May 2010 15:41:40 -0400 (EDT), Paul Chany wrote: > > I have an old PC Box on which I was run Debian Lenny with kernel > 2.6.26-2-486. I used it as a Desktop for small jobs. > > Yesterday I decided to upgrade it to Squeeze. > I did the following: > 1 change the lenny to squeeze in sourc

Re: Ugrade from Lenny to Squeeze on old PC Box - fsck died with exit status 8

2010-05-28 Thread Paul Chany
Sven Joachim writes: > On 2010-05-28 10:30 +0200, Paul Chany wrote: > >> On Squeeze how can i install linux-base package from SID? > > Get it from packages.debian.org if you don't want an entry for sid in > your sources.list. You have to install the libuuid-perl and > libapt-pkg-perl packages, s

Re: Ugrade from Lenny to Squeeze on old PC Box - fsck died with exit status 8

2010-05-28 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Paul Chany put forth on 5/28/2010 3:30 AM: > If I change in fstab all instances of hdaX to sdaX and after reboot > can't get the running system it would be bad. In that case shall I have > the opportunity to fix the problem? AFAICT, it will only be a problem if you try to boot your old Lenny 2.6.

Re: Ugrade from Lenny to Squeeze on old PC Box - fsck died with exit status 8

2010-05-28 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-05-28 10:30 +0200, Paul Chany wrote: > If I change in fstab all instances of hdaX to sdaX and after reboot > can't get the running system it would be bad. In that case shall I have > the opportunity to fix the problem? It is always a good idea to have a rescue disk at hand. > On Squeeze

Re: Ugrade from Lenny to Squeeze on old PC Box - fsck died with exit status 8

2010-05-28 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 28 May 2010 10:30:03 +0200, Paul Chany wrote: > Andrei Popescu writes: > >> It might be enough to replace all instances of hdaX with the >> corresponding sdaX, but UUID or labels are much safer anyway. I think >> linux-base (pointed out by Sven) will even automate (most of) the >> transit

Re: Ugrade from Lenny to Squeeze on old PC Box - fsck died with exit status 8

2010-05-28 Thread Paul Chany
Andrei Popescu writes: > On Fri,28.May.10, 10:07:38, Paul Chany wrote: >> Sven Joachim writes: >> > >> > The new kernel is probably using libata instead of the old IDE drivers, >> > which means that your hard disk is called /dev/sda rather than /dev/hda. >> > You should use labels or UUIDs in /e

Re: Ugrade from Lenny to Squeeze on old PC Box - fsck died with exit status 8

2010-05-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,28.May.10, 10:07:38, Paul Chany wrote: > Sven Joachim writes: > > > > The new kernel is probably using libata instead of the old IDE drivers, > > which means that your hard disk is called /dev/sda rather than /dev/hda. > > You should use labels or UUIDs in /etc/fstab if you want to use both

Re: Ugrade from Lenny to Squeeze on old PC Box - fsck died with exit status 8

2010-05-28 Thread Paul Chany
Sven Joachim writes: > On 2010-05-28 09:26 +0200, Paul Chany wrote: > >> Checking file systems...fsck from util-linux-ng 2.16.2 >> fsck.ext3: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/hda6 > > The new kernel is probably using libata instead of the old IDE drivers, > which means that you

Re: Ugrade from Lenny to Squeeze on old PC Box - fsck died with exit status 8

2010-05-28 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-05-28 09:26 +0200, Paul Chany wrote: > Checking file systems...fsck from util-linux-ng 2.16.2 > fsck.ext3: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/hda6 The new kernel is probably using libata instead of the old IDE drivers, which means that your hard disk is called /dev/sda ra

Re: Ugrade from Lenny to Squeeze on old PC Box - fsck died with exit status 8

2010-05-28 Thread Paul Chany
Paul Chany writes: > Eike Lantzsch writes: > >> On Thursday 27 May 2010, Paul Chany wrote: >>> When I boot with the linux-image-2.6.30-2-486 or >>> linux-image-2.6.32-3-486 kernel I can't get the HOME and other >>> directories but when I boot with the old kernel 2.6.26-2-486 then I get >>> the

Re: Ugrade from Lenny to Squeeze on old PC Box

2010-05-27 Thread Paul Chany
Eike Lantzsch writes: > On Thursday 27 May 2010, Paul Chany wrote: >> >> I have an old PC Box on which I was run Debian Lenny with kernel >> 2.6.26-2-486. I used it as a Desktop for small jobs. >> >> Yesterday I decided to upgrade it to Squeeze. >> I did the following: >> 1 change the lenny to

Re: Ugrade from Lenny to Squeeze on old PC Box

2010-05-27 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Thursday 27 May 2010, Paul Chany wrote: > Hi, > > I have an old PC Box on which I was run Debian Lenny with kernel > 2.6.26-2-486. I used it as a Desktop for small jobs. > > Yesterday I decided to upgrade it to Squeeze. > I did the following: > 1 change the lenny to squeeze in sources.list > 2