Karl Hasselström wrote:
On 2004-07-26 21:50:14 -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 12:40:19AM +0200, Karl Hasselstr?m wrote:
I've run reiserfs on a few Debian boxes for a year or two now, and
the bogeymen haven't come for me yet, so I'd say it's not a
problem.
The othe
On 2004-07-26 21:50:14 -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 12:40:19AM +0200, Karl Hasselstr?m wrote:
>
> > I've run reiserfs on a few Debian boxes for a year or two now, and
> > the bogeymen haven't come for me yet, so I'd say it's not a
> > problem.
>
> The other ancient bogeyman
On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 11:44:20AM -0400, Alec Berryman wrote:
> begin quotation of Hendrik Boom:
>
> > This still leaves open which is the best way to go about it -- copy and
> > upgrade, or new install.
>
> New install. The new installer will recreate automatically most of
> the config files
On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 12:40:19AM +0200, Karl Hasselstr?m wrote:
> On 2004-07-26 10:37:15 -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>
> > (2) Copy the entire Debain woody partition, replacing the Mandrake
> > partition, adjusting .etc.fstab o the new partition so it points to
> > itself, adding the copy as an a
On 2004-07-26 10:37:15 -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> (2) Copy the entire Debain woody partition, replacing the Mandrake
> partition, adjusting .etc.fstab o the new partition so it points to
> itself, adding the copy as an additional entry to lilo.conf, making
> /home symlink to the existing /home o
Bill Moseley wrote:
On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 10:34:26PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
Hendrik Boom wrote:
I'm about to upgrade my woody system to eather testing or unstable
(probably unstable, because I gather that temporarily broken package
dependencies don'e cause as much mass deletion an
begin quotation of Hendrik Boom:
> This still leaves open which is the best way to go about it -- copy and
> upgrade, or new install.
New install. The new installer will recreate automatically most of
the config files you'd be moving, and you'll have a cleaner system to
start from.
signature.
On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 08:01:45AM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 10:34:26PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> > Hendrik Boom wrote:
> >
> > >I'm about to upgrade my woody system to eather testing or unstable
> > >(probably unstable, because I gather that temporarily broken pa
On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 10:34:26PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> Hendrik Boom wrote:
>
> >I'm about to upgrade my woody system to eather testing or unstable
> >(probably unstable, because I gather that temporarily broken package
> >dependencies don'e cause as much mass deletion and restoration
Hendrik Boom wrote:
I'm about to upgrade my woody system to eather testing or unstable
(probably unstable, because I gather that temporarily broken package
dependencies don'e cause as much mass deletion and restoration of
entire suites of packages there) Please correct me if I am wrong on
any of t
I'm about to upgrade my woody system to eather testing or unstable
(probably unstable, because I gather that temporarily broken package
dependencies don'e cause as much mass deletion and restoration of
entire suites of packages there) Please correct me if I am wrong on
any of these details.
I pla
On 06/08/01 17:02:57 -0700, Jeremiah H. Savage wrote:
> >From my experience of upgrading from Potato, I've found it's best to do a
> couple of 'apt-get install [foo]' before doing the whole 'dist-upgrade.' The
> first foo I install is 'dpkg' (fewer segfaults later on that way), then 'apt'.
> Upgrad
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 04:25:56PM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote:
> I'm not sure if I've screwed up here, but I decided to upgrade from
> potato to woody last night, but now I can't seem to get X
> reconfigured. Looking at dselect, it looks as if I have packages from
> both 3.3 and 4.0 versions of X in
Hi all,
I'm not sure if I've screwed up here, but I decided to upgrade from
potato to woody last night, but now I can't seem to get X
reconfigured. Looking at dselect, it looks as if I have packages from
both 3.3 and 4.0 versions of X installed. This can't be good, right?
I'm not sure what exactl
I just uploaded emusic_0.8-5 to incoming.
emusic (0.8-5) unstable; urgency=low
* Recompiled against GTK+ 1.2
* Consolidated into one package
* This WILL not install cleanly through dselect. Remove all your
emusic packages first (this is because dpkg cannot do versioned
"Daniel J. Mashao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> problems. 1.2 worked fine, but I upgraded to 1.3.1 and now my monitor does
> not do 800x600.
Did you try
su
mv /etc/X11/XF86Config /etc/X11/XF86Config.old
# Just want to make sure there aren't any old ones lying around to
# confuse XF86Se
Here is what the upgrading notes say on the subject. I believe that this
will address all of your problems. Maybe it will help someone else avoid
your difficulties.
To get a smooth upgrade from 1.1 or 1.2 make sure to install the following,
by hand after first clearing the available file as follow
> "Joost" == Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[Snip: there are problems upgrading direct from 1.1 to 1.3]
Joost> If you or others can shed some light on what goes wrong, I will
Joost> look into that. I have an Infomagic 1.1.something cd (september
Joost> 96) and a 1.3.0 "oficial" cd.
On Mon, 25 Aug 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
> From: Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > P.S. One reason to have 1.1 is because the base disk will work on the
> > thinkpads that reject the 1.2 and 1.3. I think this could be fixed if we
> > released a rescue disk that doesn't need to be a bzima
bruce wrote,
>
> We want it to be easy for people to upgrade. However, it's currently
> difficult for people who had 1.1 on their systems to upgrade to 1.3,
> because the best way to do this was to install 1.2 and then 1.3 . You can
> go straight from 1.1 to 1.3, but I hear this is much more diffi
Bruce Perens wrote:
> When you look at the size of our FTP archive it's clear we need to remove
> stuff eventually. I'd be happy to have a site where old stuff could remain
> for a much longer time - is anyone still keeping 1.2 on-line?
Take a look at ftp://debian.crosslink.net/pub/debian-old/
The
> We want it to be easy for people to upgrade. However, it's currently
> difficult for people who had 1.1 on their systems to upgrade to 1.3,
> because the best way to do this was to install 1.2 and then 1.3 . You can
> go straight from 1.1 to 1.3, but I hear this is much more difficult.
> We kept
Hi,
>>"Daniel" == Daniel J Mashao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Daniel> On Fri, 22 Aug 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
>> Bruce Perens wrote:
>>
>> We want it to be easy for people to upgrade. However, it's
>> currently difficult for people who had 1.1 on their systems to
>> upgrade to 1.3, because the b
On Fri, 22 Aug 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
> Bruce Perens wrote:
>
> We want it to be easy for people to upgrade. However, it's currently
> difficult for people who had 1.1 on their systems to upgrade to 1.3,
> because the best way to do this was to install 1.2 and then 1.3 . You can
I understand y
y more.
> From: Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> What are the implications of these words Bruce? I hope Debian stays
> dedicated to providing an easy upgrade path across several major
> releases. Just because it is now _possible_ to upgrade about monthly
> from a cd doesn&#x
On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Will Lowe wrote:
> Should I just select EVERYTHING?
YIKES! Don't do THAT! You will spend so much time in the conflict
resolution screen that you will NEVER figure out what to do!
You might take a close look at the packages marked IMPORTANT first.
Select which of these you
Ok, I understand hte basics and I can follow the directions on the web
site. Here's my question: After I've installed the basics (by hand), what
do I tell dselect? Should I just select EVERYTHING? Are some packages more
important to keep up with? I basically play to set it up, point it a
On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Edouard Katz wrote:
> Have decide recently to move to Debian (fully support its policy) so I went
> on the net and found the necessary stuff to install the base1_3 system.
> Installed very well without a problem on my old 486/33 no CD. The only way
> to install from a CD is
At 17:13 17/6/97 +0200, you wrote:
>
>
>On Tue, 17 Jun 1997, Edouard Katz wrote:
>
>> At 22:58 16/6/97 +0200, you wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >On Mon, 16 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> >
>> >> I have a standalone Debian 1.2 machine ;( - so here is what I plan to do:
>> >>
>> >> 1. Identify all packa
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Joost Kooij wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 16 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > I have a standalone Debian 1.2 machine ;( - so here is what I plan to do:
> >
> > 1. Identify all packages that where updated on 1.3 and dld them, including
> >the Packages file.
> >
> > 2. Up
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have a standalone Debian 1.2 machine ;( - so here is what I plan to do:
>
> 1. Identify all packages that where updated on 1.3 and dld them, including
>the Packages file.
>
> 2. Updating dpkg:
>dpkg --clear-avail
>dpkg -i ldso_*.deb
Hi debians,
I followed closely the recent discussions regarding 1.3 - and finally decided
to join the herd. Please excuse the use of the bandwidth.
I have a standalone Debian 1.2 machine ;( - so here is what I plan to do:
1. Identify all packages that where updated on 1.3 and dld them, includin
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