Re: updating squeeze to wheezy

2014-10-01 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 26 sep 14, 12:25:23, John Lindsay wrote: > Greeting > > I have been trying to update my Debian 6 (squeeze) to Debian 7 (wheezy). I > have been reading the following URLs and trying to make sense of them with > respect to upgrading. > >www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-u

Re: Part 2 - updating squeeze to wheezy

2014-09-29 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 19:49:16 -0400 Rob Owens wrote: > Sounds like you're using Gnome3 Shell and you're not too excited about > it. Before logging in, you can select your session to be "Gnome > Classic" or "Gnome Fallback" (I can't remember which). That will be > fairly similar to the Gnome you

Re: Part 2 - updating squeeze to wheezy

2014-09-29 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 05:39:20PM -0400, John Lindsay wrote: > Thank you Clive for your reply. Here are my settings now after doing > the change to my sources.list: > > >uname -a shows: > >Linux debian 3.2.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.2.60-1+deb7u3 i686 GNU/Linux > > >lsb_release -a shows > >No

Re: Part 2 - updating squeeze to wheezy

2014-09-27 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 9/27/14, Clive Standbridge wrote: >> The following is what I get when I type "apt-get update" and obviously >> it failed to update. My original sources.list (see part 1 - updating >> squeeze to wheezy) (bottom 16 lines) had squeeze and I was getting >> simil

Re: Part 2 - updating squeeze to wheezy

2014-09-27 Thread John Lindsay
ist (see part 1 - updating squeeze to wheezy) (bottom 16 lines) had squeeze and I was getting similar results. Later today I am going to try and shorten sources list and simplify it to a minimal update using squeeze then retry with wheezy. That doesn't look like your problem. [...] N: I

Re: Part 2 - updating squeeze to wheezy

2014-09-27 Thread Clive Standbridge
> The following is what I get when I type "apt-get update" and obviously > it failed to update. My original sources.list (see part 1 - updating > squeeze to wheezy) (bottom 16 lines) had squeeze and I was getting > similar results. > > Later today I am going to try

Part 2 - updating squeeze to wheezy

2014-09-27 Thread John Lindsay
The following is what I get when I type "apt-get update" and obviously it failed to update. My original sources.list (see part 1 - updating squeeze to wheezy) (bottom 16 lines) had squeeze and I was getting similar results. Later today I am going to try and shorten sources list an

Part 1 ---- updating squeeze to wheezy

2014-09-27 Thread John Lindsay
I am going to post this in several messages to keep things relatively concise. Here is my sources.list. Top 16 lines were generated by http://debgen.simplylinux.ch/ I left the first 3 as a basic sources.list. The next 13 were also generated by the above but I marked them as ignore. The last 16

Re: updating squeeze to wheezy

2014-09-26 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 12:25:23PM -0400, John Lindsay wrote: > Greeting > > I have been trying to update my Debian 6 (squeeze) to Debian 7 (wheezy). I > have been reading the following URLs and trying to make sense of them with > respect to upgrading. > > >http://www.garron.me/en/linux/upgrade-d

Re: updating squeeze to wheezy

2014-09-26 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "John Lindsay" > > Greeting > > I have been trying to update my Debian 6 (squeeze) to Debian 7 (wheezy). > I have been reading the following URLs and trying to make sense of them > with respect to upgrading. > > > Obviously it failed to upgrade to wheezy.

updating squeeze to wheezy

2014-09-26 Thread John Lindsay
Greeting I have been trying to update my Debian 6 (squeeze) to Debian 7 (wheezy). I have been reading the following URLs and trying to make sense of them with respect to upgrading. http://www.garron.me/en/linux/upgrade-debian-squeeze-wheezy-6.0-7.0.html http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-upgra