Re: etch-to-lenny upgrade problem...

2009-06-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,29.Jun.09, 21:26:31, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > > You can use one of the many Live CD's and delete you system files > before the install and then install without formating, it works a > charm. :) Compared to: # sed -i -e 's/etch/lenny/' /etc/apt/sources.list # aptitude update # aptitude insta

Re: etch-to-lenny upgrade problem...

2009-06-29 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Rich Griffiths wrote: On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:20:17 +0200, Steve Witt wrote: On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Adriano Trentini wrote: Hi. I'm not professional. I have Lenny installed in a AMD Duron. Why to upgrade etch if you can simply install Lenny? You won't have to answer all those setup questions

Re: etch-to-lenny upgrade problem...

2009-06-29 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Steve Witt wrote: On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Adriano Trentini wrote: Hi. I'm not professional. I have Lenny installed in a AMD Duron. Why to upgrade etch if you can simply install Lenny? Because it is easier to upgrade than to reinstall in most cases. I'm sure that I'm not along when I say tha

Re: etch-to-lenny upgrade problem...

2009-06-29 Thread Rich Griffiths
On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:20:17 +0200, Steve Witt wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Adriano Trentini wrote: > >> Hi. >> I'm not professional. I have Lenny installed in a AMD Duron. Why to >> upgrade etch if you can simply install Lenny? >> >> > Because it is easier to upgrade than to reinstall in most c

Re: etch-to-lenny upgrade problem...

2009-06-29 Thread Steve Witt
On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Adriano Trentini wrote: Hi. I'm not professional. I have Lenny installed in a AMD Duron. Why to upgrade etch if you can simply install Lenny? Because it is easier to upgrade than to reinstall in most cases. Usually the machine's configuration is not affected during the u

Re: etch-to-lenny upgrade problem...

2009-06-29 Thread Daryl Styrk
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 04:46:34PM -0700, Adriano Trentini wrote: >Hi. >I'm not professional. I have Lenny installed in a AMD Duron. >Why to upgrade etch if you can simply install Lenny?

Re: etch-to-lenny upgrade problem...

2009-06-29 Thread Adriano Trentini
Hi. I'm not professional. I have Lenny installed in a AMD Duron. Why to upgrade etch if you can simply install Lenny? --- Em seg, 29/6/09, Ed Sutter escreveu: De: Ed Sutter Assunto: Re: etch-to-lenny upgrade problem... Para: "Rich Griffiths" Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.or

Re: etch-to-lenny upgrade problem...

2009-06-29 Thread Ed Sutter
Rich Griffiths wrote: On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:30:19 +0200, Ed Sutter wrote: Hi, Last week I attempted to upgrade to lenny. Everything *seemed* to go well, until I rebooted.. Now at startup I see a few errors (see below) and end up with no GUI, and no network connectivity. Bottom line... It ai

Re: etch-to-lenny upgrade problem...

2009-06-29 Thread Rich Griffiths
On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:30:19 +0200, Ed Sutter wrote: > Hi, > Last week I attempted to upgrade to lenny. Everything *seemed* to go > well, until I rebooted.. Now at startup I see a few errors (see below) > and end up with no GUI, and no network connectivity. > > Bottom line... > It ain't good. :-

Re: etch-to-lenny upgrade problem...

2009-06-29 Thread Ed Sutter
Ed Sutter wrote: Hi, Last week I attempted to upgrade to lenny. Everything *seemed* to go well, until I rebooted.. Now at startup I see a few errors (see below) and end up with no GUI, and no network connectivity. Bottom line... It ain't good. :-( Anyone have a clue what may have happened? Tha

etch-to-lenny upgrade problem...

2009-06-29 Thread Ed Sutter
Hi, Last week I attempted to upgrade to lenny. Everything *seemed* to go well, until I rebooted.. Now at startup I see a few errors (see below) and end up with no GUI, and no network connectivity. Bottom line... It ain't good. :-( Anyone have a clue what may have happened? Thanks in advance, Ed

Re: non-dpkg owned libc6 - etch to lenny upgrade problem

2009-02-25 Thread John Fleming
>> > Answer to my followup to your previous copy of that message from >> > yesterday, rather than sending it again. >> >> I would if I could... I never saw my message posted, nor did I see your >> response. Nor do I find either in the list archives. > > They are in the archives. Tzafrir did reply t

Re: non-dpkg owned libc6 - etch to lenny upgrade problem

2009-02-25 Thread Bob Cox
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 11:10:00 -0500, John Fleming (j...@wa9als.com) wrote: > On Wed, February 25, 2009 10:25 am, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 09:56:09AM -0500, John Fleming wrote: > >> Consider me a newbie - trying to upgrade etch to lenny, getting msg about > >> having a n

Re: non-dpkg owned libc6 - etch to lenny upgrade problem

2009-02-25 Thread John Fleming
On Wed, February 25, 2009 10:25 am, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 09:56:09AM -0500, John Fleming wrote: >> Consider me a newbie - trying to upgrade etch to lenny, getting msg about >> having a non-dpkg owned copy of libc6-i686. "Can't live with it, can't live >> without it". Can't

Re: non-dpkg owned libc6 - etch to lenny upgrade problem

2009-02-25 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 09:56:09AM -0500, John Fleming wrote: > Consider me a newbie - trying to upgrade etch to lenny, getting msg about > having a non-dpkg owned copy of libc6-i686. "Can't live with it, can't live > without it". Can't remove it. Can't upgrade with what I have. Previously > I'v

non-dpkg owned libc6 - etch to lenny upgrade problem

2009-02-25 Thread John Fleming
Consider me a newbie - trying to upgrade etch to lenny, getting msg about having a non-dpkg owned copy of libc6-i686. "Can't live with it, can't live without it". Can't remove it. Can't upgrade with what I have. Previously I've done all installs and upgrades with apt-get. I started this system