Re: mkinitrd and glibc version problem in etch

2008-02-25 Thread Richard Lyons
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:13:48AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 10:14:54PM +, Richard Lyons wrote: [..] > > > > As I said, I am at home with fdisk and parted. And can boot from > > knoppix and copy a whole partition off when I need to, whereas knoppix > > doesn't

Re: mkinitrd and glibc version problem in etch

2008-02-25 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 10:14:54PM +, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 04:25:02PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > > What warnings did you get about LVM? It is rather nice to be able to > > resize partitions, but also migrate partitions of of failing drives. On > > all my o

Re: mkinitrd and glibc version problem in etch

2008-02-24 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 04:25:02PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > What warnings did you get about LVM? It is rather nice to be able to > resize partitions, but also migrate partitions of of failing drives. On > all my old boxes (that are still new enough to run Debian), drive > failures sta

Re: mkinitrd and glibc version problem in etch

2008-02-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 07:14:02PM +, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 12:22:59PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 12:16:34PM +, Richard Lyons wrote: > > I hope you kept backups and if not, make a full set before you do > > anything else. That is,

Re: mkinitrd and glibc version problem in etch

2008-02-24 Thread Richard Lyons
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 12:22:59PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 12:16:34PM +, Richard Lyons wrote: > > Silly situation: I have been wanting to release my etch install from > > the LVM so as to be able to adjust the partitioning. The arrangement [...] > > Problem

Re: mkinitrd and glibc version problem in etch

2008-02-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 12:16:34PM +, Richard Lyons wrote: > Silly situation: I have been wanting to release my etch install from > the LVM so as to be able to adjust the partitioning. The arrangement > was: [snip: old LVM setup] See my note at the bottom. > /usr used also to be in the LVM

mkinitrd and glibc version problem in etch

2008-02-24 Thread Richard Lyons
Hi all. Silly situation: I have been wanting to release my etch install from the LVM so as to be able to adjust the partitioning. The arrangement was: /dev/mapper/Debian-root on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) /dev/hda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw) /dev/mapper/Debian-home on /home type ext3 (rw) /