Re: Upgrade from Sarge to Etch Satisfactorily Completed

2008-03-25 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 04:19:15AM +0100, s. keeling wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:18:33 -0400 (EDT) > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Even with computers with BIOS too old to boot from CD, Debian CDs > provide sbm (smart boot manager) which can boot

Re: Upgrade from Sarge to Etch Satisfactorily Completed

2008-03-24 Thread s. keeling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:18:33 -0400 (EDT) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >>Hi, Andrei, I guess you know something I don't know(not that > >>that's a surprise) Why would I take my netinstall file > >>(167 Mb) and put it on a CD u

Re: Upgrade from Sarge to Etch Satisfactorily Completed

2008-03-24 Thread alan
> On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:18:33 -0400 (EDT) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>Hi, Andrei, I guess you know something I don't know(not that >>that's a surprise) Why would I take my netinstall file >>(167 Mb) and put it on a CD unless the CD was _bootable_? >>The CD would

Re: Upgrade from Sarge to Etch Satisfactorily Completed

2008-03-24 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:18:33 -0400 (EDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 03:37:18PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > > >> > image, boot from it, make a minimal install and then continue > >> > with the DVDs (instead of installing sarge and upgrading to > >> > etch)? > >

Re: Upgrade from Sarge to Etch Satisfactorily Completed

2008-03-23 Thread alan
> On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 03:37:18PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> > image, boot from it, make a minimal install and then continue with the >> > DVDs (instead of installing sarge and upgrading to etch)? >> Hi, Andrei, thanks for your suggestion. Unfortunately my (quite >>

Re: Upgrade from Sarge to Etch Satisfactorily Completed

2008-03-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 03:37:18PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 10:54:14AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > >> Because of foolish mistakes of mine(don't ask!) it turned out I > >> had to trash my / and /boot partitions, and completely reinstall > >> sarge, from

Re: Upgrade from Sarge to Etch Satisfactorily Completed

2008-03-23 Thread alan
> On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 10:54:14AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> Because of foolish mistakes of mine(don't ask!) it turned out I >> had to trash my / and /boot partitions, and completely reinstall >> sarge, from my ancient and well-used pile of 12 sarge CDs. This >> took a while. > > Wou

Re: Upgrade from Sarge to Etch Satisfactorily Completed

2008-03-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 10:54:14AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yesterday was a horrendous day! My goal was to upgrade my > ancient sarge distribution to etch, using my three etch > DVDs. It is a complicated problem because my DVD Reader/player > is external, connected through USB, and my BI

Upgrade from Sarge to Etch Satisfactorily Completed

2008-03-23 Thread alan
Yesterday was a horrendous day! My goal was to upgrade my ancient sarge distribution to etch, using my three etch DVDs. It is a complicated problem because my DVD Reader/player is external, connected through USB, and my BIOS won't allow booting from it. Because of foolish mistakes of mine(don't