Re: help with upgrade from woody to sarge...

2006-08-09 Thread Russell L. Harris
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 11:23:38PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > >> Go to another machine and Make yourself a GRUB boot CD (or, if you >> prefer, a boot floppy). You can boot from the GRUB CD, and then repair >> your system. Everybody ought to keep a GRUB boot CD

Re: help with upgrade from woody to sarge...

2006-08-09 Thread Hodgins Family
On Wed, 2006-09-08 at 08:08 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 11:23:38PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > > Go to another machine and Make yourself a GRUB boot CD (or, if you > > prefer, a boot floppy). You can boot from the GRUB CD, and then repair > > your system. Ev

Re: help with upgrade from woody to sarge...

2006-08-09 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you make a grub boot CD or floppy? And how do you use it? /usr/share/doc/grub/README contains a link to grub's home page. This contains an excellent manual with all the information you require - and much more... alternatively you could install grub-doc and the

Re: help with upgrade from woody to sarge...

2006-08-09 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 11:23:38PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > Go to another machine and Make yourself a GRUB boot CD (or, if you > prefer, a boot floppy). You can boot from the GRUB CD, and then repair > your system. Everybody ought to keep a GRUB boot CD handy! How do you make a grub bo

Re: help with upgrade from woody to sarge...

2006-08-08 Thread Russell L. Harris
Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 10:48:10PM -0400, Mario Flores wrote: >> I have upgraded from woody to sarge and after a very long list of >> packages being installed, my system is a mess: >> >> Right after the upgrade, I launched X and kdm (I had kdm

Re: help with upgrade from woody to sarge...

2006-08-08 Thread Mumia W.
On 08/08/2006 09:48 PM, Mario Flores wrote: Hi, I have upgraded from woody to sarge and after a very long list of packages being installed, my system is a mess: Right after the upgrade, I launched X and kdm (I had kdm and kde working fine prior to the upgrade) and at log in, it tried to laun

Re: help with upgrade from woody to sarge...

2006-08-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 10:48:10PM -0400, Mario Flores wrote: > Hi, > > I have upgraded from woody to sarge and after a very long list of > packages being installed, my system is a mess: > > Right after the upgrade, I launched X and kdm (I had kdm and kde > working fine prior to the upgrade)