Tiago Pedrosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 12:20:08 +0200
> Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hello list,I've not come across a definitive answer on this one,
> > probably due to not having search enough. Anyway, what's the best way
> > of updating a box running Stable to r
Bob wrote:
Do I just change my sources from stable to testing and do and update
followed by an upgrade, or do I do a dist-upgrade...? The reason I ask
is that I haven't seen too much info on dist-upgrade and don't really
understand how to use it.
When you do a regular 'upgrade', apt will only
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 12:20:08 +0200
Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello list,I've not come across a definitive answer on this one,
> probably due to not having search enough. Anyway, what's the best way
> of updating a box running Stable to run Testing...?
>
> Do I just change my sources from s
On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 09:28:43 +0100, Jan Minar wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 03:41:05PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote:
>> And yes, it's a hack (to get around limited space in the boot sector), but
>> it works OK.
>
> It shouldn't go unnoticed, that the boot sector is a hack, too. Not to
> mention B
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 03:41:05PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote:
> And yes, it's a hack (to get around limited space in the boot sector), but
> it works OK.
It shouldn't go unnoticed, that the boot sector is a hack, too. Not to
mention BIOS, which is the thing why the MBR _has_ to be there.
--
Jan
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 11:23:01 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
> Logical vs. Primary. Logical partitions are a work-around for the fact
> that you can only have four primary partitions. So 1-4 are reserved for
> primary partitions, and logical partitions start at 5.
>
> See, it *is* logical =)
>
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 at 17:02 GMT, Josh Robinson penned:
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>> Your must have set your partitions up as logical partitions. Logical
>> partitions start at 5.
>
> how wonderfully, err, logical
>
> Your must have set your partitions up as logical partitions. Logical
> partitions start at 5.
how wonderfully, err, logical
j
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On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 15:33:55 +, Josh Robinson wrote:
> all sorted out: thanks to all for your help. nice shiny box, working as
> new - and i no longer have to use pine to get at my email!
>
> for some reason, my partitions are hda5 through 8 - i have no idea quite
> how or why i set them up l
all sorted out: thanks to all for your help. nice shiny box, working as
new - and i no longer have to use pine to get at my email!
for some reason, my partitions are hda5 through 8 - i have no idea quite
how or why i set them up like that, but once i'd found that out, it was
all ok.
oh, and using
Josh Robinson wrote:
thanks for all the advice: still no joy as yet, though
when i boot from the CD, it gives me about 5 options, most of which
involve a new installation. there is, however, the option of executing a
shell command.
when i do that, it tells me i'm about to run ash (whatever that mi
thanks for all the advice: still no joy as yet, though
when i boot from the CD, it gives me about 5 options, most of which
involve a new installation. there is, however, the option of executing a
shell command.
when i do that, it tells me i'm about to run ash (whatever that might be)
and that the
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 16:02:04 +, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 10:32:47AM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote:
>> On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 16:00:41 +0100, HdV wrote:
>> > Note that if you use the lines above you will stay with sarge once it
>> > gets to stable. If you want to continue tracking
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 12:27:56 -0500, Anthony DiSante wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Note also that sarge currently does NOT have a useful security
>> repository. All security updates for testing need to go through sid
>> first, so there is a not insignificant delay before they are apt-getable
Hi Josh!
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Josh Robinson wrote:
> a problem:
>
> i updated my sources.list file, and ran apt-get dist-upgrade. followed the
> instructions on the screen. and rebooted.
>
> except now my box won't boot. i just get the characters LI (i think) in
> the top left-hand corner of th
Josh Robinson wrote:
Maybe you have one of the woody intaller CD's, boot off the first one,
and when prompted type rescue root=/dev/hdxX <-- replace with your
root partition, probably hda1.
thanks: how do i know which is my root partition? (i can't remember which
is which of my various partit
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 05:11:14PM +, Josh Robinson wrote:
> > Maybe you have one of the woody intaller CD's, boot off the first one,
> > and when prompted type rescue root=/dev/hdxX <-- replace with your
> > root partition, probably hda1.
>
> thanks: how do i know which is my root partiti
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Note also that sarge currently does NOT have a useful security
repository. All security updates for testing need to go through sid
first, so there is a not insignificant delay before they are apt-getable
for testing...
Most of the time that isn't too much of a problem as "a
> Maybe you have one of the woody intaller CD's, boot off the first one,
> and when prompted type rescue root=/dev/hdxX <-- replace with your
> root partition, probably hda1.
thanks: how do i know which is my root partition? (i can't remember which
is which of my various partitions - i can't r
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 10:32:47AM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 16:00:41 +0100, HdV wrote:
> > Note that if you use the lines above you will stay with sarge once it
> > gets to stable. If you want to continue tracking testing after that
> > you should change all occurances of "sa
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 16:00:41 +0100, HdV wrote:
>
> Note that if you use the lines above you will stay with sarge once it
> gets to stable. If you want to continue tracking testing after that
> you should change all occurances of "sarge" with "testing" in the above
> lines.
>
That's exactly the
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Josh Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> a problem:
>
> i updated my sources.list file, and ran apt-get dist-upgrade. followed the
> instructions on the screen. and rebooted.
>
> except now my box won't boo
On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Anthony DiSante wrote:
> > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian sarge main contrib non-free
> > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US sarge/non-US main contrib non-free
> > deb http://security.debian.org sarge/updates main contrib non-free
> >
> > WATCH for the sarge word
a problem:
i updated my sources.list file, and ran apt-get dist-upgrade. followed the
instructions on the screen. and rebooted.
except now my box won't boot. i just get the characters LI (i think) in
the top left-hand corner of teh screen, and nothing happens.
what should i do?
josh
--
To UN
Hugo S. Carrer wrote:
If the box has a connection to the internet all you need to do is the
following:
1) Open as root the file /etc/apt/sources.list with your favorite editor
and uncomment or add if missing the folowing lines.
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian sarge main contrib non-free
deb ht
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 16:21:40 -0500, Anthony DiSante wrote:
>
> ...and it makes me think that I can put lines into /etc/apt/preferences
> and/or /etc/apt/apt.conf that will cause "apt-get upgrade" to upgrade me to
> the testing release. Is that correct? If so, exactly what do I need to put
>
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 16:21:40 -0500, Anthony DiSante wrote:
> Hello,
> ...and it makes me think that I can put lines into /etc/apt/preferences
> and/or /etc/apt/apt.conf that will cause "apt-get upgrade" to upgrade me to
> the testing release. Is that correct? If so, exactly what do I need to p
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Anthony DiSante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
> ...
> ...and/or /etc/apt/apt.conf that will cause "apt-get upgrade" to upgrade me to
> the testing release. Is that correct? If so, exactly what do I need to p
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 02:21:51AM +1100, Rob Weir wrote:
> Nearly. Testing has got (effectively) no new binary packages in months,
> because sid has switched to libc6 2.3.1, which is, er, 'a little buggy'.
> It's been broken enough that it's been unable to move into testing, and
> since all binar
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 12:53:48AM -0500, sean finney wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 10:44:16PM -0600, Hanasaki JiJi wrote:
> > IMO, yes.
> >
> > Although, I use "sarge" not "testing" to be sure that I dont
> > inadvertantly upgrade to the next version of testing by accident.
>
> right, but be
On February 24, 2003 05:15 pm, M. Kirchhoff wrote:
> How do the two methods differ? I don't know anything about downreving,
> so I wasn't aware that modifying my sources.list as outlined below would
> prevent me from doing that... thanks for the response
Keeping the "stable" lines in your apt.sou
ebruary 24, 2003 9:15 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Upgrading from Stable to Testing
> -Original Message-
> From: M. Kirchhoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Once I've got the Stable release of Woody running, is the best way to
> move up to the Testing level to s
> -Original Message-
> From: M. Kirchhoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Once I've got the Stable release of Woody running, is the best way to
> move up to the Testing level to simply change my to point
> to
>
> http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing main
>
> and then run
>
> apt-get up
On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 10:44:16PM -0600, Hanasaki JiJi wrote:
> IMO, yes.
>
> Although, I use "sarge" not "testing" to be sure that I dont
> inadvertantly upgrade to the next version of testing by accident.
right, but beware, there's lots of folks who say that testing is
worse off than unstable
IMO, yes.
Although, I use "sarge" not "testing" to be sure that I dont
inadvertantly upgrade to the next version of testing by accident.
M. Kirchhoff wrote:
Once I've got the Stable release of Woody running, is the best way to
move up to the Testing level to simply change my to point
to
http://
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