Re: Problems upgrading from potato to woody

2003-06-04 Thread Sharninder Singh-662
> > First question: can I force the configure stage of mc ('Setting up > mc-common (4.5.55-1.2)') to run again, so that I can get the new file? do u want this ... dpkg-reconfigure mc > > I have never got this to work before, but I had hoped it would this > time, plus I thought it would be n

Problems upgrading from potato to woody

2003-06-04 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
I have a couple of problems upgrading from potato to woody, using a 14-CD official set (7 binary, 7 source). I followed the instructions at this address: http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/i386/release-notes/as recommended in the installation manual. I first went with the recommended

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Upgrading from Potato to Woody on a Live Machine

2002-09-29 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 14:33, Robert James Kaes wrote: > Hello, > I just wanted to thank everyone for all the information you supplied. I > completed the upgrade last night without a problem. I don't think the > users even noticed. Debian is just wonderful. :) > -- Robert > > -- >

[SOLVED] Re: Upgrading from Potato to Woody on a Live Machine

2002-09-29 Thread Robert James Kaes
Hello, I just wanted to thank everyone for all the information you supplied. I completed the upgrade last night without a problem. I don't think the users even noticed. Debian is just wonderful. :) -- Robert -- -- R

Re: Upgrading from Potato to Woody on a Live Machine

2002-09-27 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Robert James Kaes wrote: > Hello, > Are there any problems with upgrading a machine from potato to woody while > it's live (in other words, not in single user level.) The machine in > question is a production machine that I don't not want to have down for > any longer than required. > > If there

Re: Upgrading from Potato to Woody on a Live Machine

2002-09-27 Thread Tony Wasson
On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 11:40, Robert James Kaes wrote: > Hello, > Are there any problems with upgrading a machine from potato to woody while > it's live > If there is no problem doing this (upgrading the distro while in run-level > 3), is there a recommended order? I'm assuming it would be bes

Upgrading from Potato to Woody on a Live Machine

2002-09-27 Thread Robert James Kaes
Hello, Are there any problems with upgrading a machine from potato to woody while it's live (in other words, not in single user level.) The machine in question is a production machine that I don't not want to have down for any longer than required. If there is no problem doing this (upgrading th

Re: upgrading from potato

2002-01-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 10:55:52PM -0600, Deva Seetharam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi All, > i am a debian newbie. i recently installed 2.2r4 potato. > i custom built a kernel with some required options. > > now, i am thinking of upgrading to woody. See list archives, this is a frequently cov

upgrading from potato

2001-12-31 Thread Deva Seetharam
Hi All, i am a debian newbie. i recently installed 2.2r4 potato. i custom built a kernel with some required options. now, i am thinking of upgrading to woody. i have a few questions regarding this: 1. do i need to watch out for any pitfalls if i do apt-get dist-upgrade? or is there a bette

Re: Problems with network connection after upgrading from potato to woody

2001-07-17 Thread Matthew Dalton
> Laurent PETIT wrote: > I tried route : it does'nt work, it doesn't even want to give me the > prompt, What about 'route -n'? 'route' by itself does DNS lookups, so maybe that's where your problem lies (or maybe you can't reach your DNS because of the broken route ;) Matthew

Problems with network connection after upgrading from potato to woody

2001-07-17 Thread Laurent PETIT
WHAT I HAVE DONE BEFORE MY PROBLEM:   After a couple of hours, I was able to make what seemed a good woody installation. No more problem with dselect, apt. I upgraded via Internet : my ISDN connection worked before installation, so did it during the first part (downloading files).

Re: Upgrading from potato to woody -> Perl Error on Templates

2001-07-17 Thread Laurent PETIT
> Laurent PETIT wrote: > > > Then re-run your full install. The new debconf will clearly indicate > > > what package has the broken template file. Then file a bug on that package. > > > > Yes, it worked ! Thanks to Joey Hess. > > After a couple of hours, so, but it worked. > > So did you find the

Re: Upgrading from potato to woody -> Perl Error on Templates

2001-07-16 Thread Joey Hess
Laurent PETIT wrote: > > Then re-run your full install. The new debconf will clearly indicate > > what package has the broken template file. Then file a bug on that package. > > Yes, it worked ! Thanks to Joey Hess. > After a couple of hours, so, but it worked. So did you find the broken package

Re: Upgrading from potato to woody -> Perl Error on Templates

2001-07-16 Thread Laurent PETIT
> Laurent PETIT wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > Template parse error near "" at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Template.pm line 60 chunk 3 > > Upgrade to the debconf in woody (apt-get install debconf). > > Then re-run your full install. The new debconf will clearly indicate > what package has the b

Re: Upgrading from potato to woody -> Perl Error on Templates

2001-07-16 Thread Joey Hess
Laurent PETIT wrote: > Hello everybody, > Template parse error near "" at /usr/lib/perl5/Debian/DebConf/Template.pm > line 60 chunk 3 Upgrade to the debconf in woody (apt-get install debconf). Then re-run your full install. The new debconf will clearly indicate what package has the broken templ

Upgrading from potato to woody -> Perl Error on Templates

2001-07-16 Thread Laurent PETIT
Hello everybody,   WHAT I HAVE DONE I'm upgrading from potato to woody. What I have done is: - install a potato from the CD's. I made a simple installation, without X, HTTP servers - I then installed an external package: conf-isdn-account to configure my ISDN Car

Re: Repost (Apologies for HTML): Problems upgrading from potato to woody

2001-04-03 Thread Daniel Toffetti
Hi Karsten !! - It broke my lilo, leaving me with a missing library (/lib/ld-linux.so.2). > I got the file mailed to me by another user, boot using floppies, and > managed to repair the boot. So...is your problem resolved or not? - I managed to solve my missing library problem, but not m

Re: Repost (Apologies for HTML): Problems upgrading from potato to woody

2001-04-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 02:13:26PM -0300, Daniel Toffetti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I added testing (woody) to my sources.list some days ago and carried > out an upgrade of my potato box. I got two main problems (amongst others I > may not noticed so far): > > - It broke my lilo, leav

Repost (Apologies for HTML): Problems upgrading from potato to woody

2001-03-28 Thread Daniel Toffetti
Hi all ! I've been gently adviced to post messages in text only mode, I apologize for any inconvenience. I'm posting in text only in other Linux oriented lists already, but I'm new to this list and I forgot to select text only as default. Thanks for the responses I already got to m

Re: Problems upgrading from potato to woody

2001-03-27 Thread Mark Hurley
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 02:24:53PM -0300, Daniel Toffetti wrote: > - It broke my lilo, leaving me with a missing library (/lib/ld-linux.so.2). I > got the file mailed to me by another user, boot using floppies, and managed > to repair the boot. Ahhh...I'm running Woody as well. I inserted the

Re: Problems upgrading from potato to woody

2001-03-27 Thread Jason Majors
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 02:24:53PM -0300, Daniel Toffetti scribbled... > Hi All! > > I added testing (woody) to my sources.list some days ago and carried > out an upgrade of my potato box. I got two main problems (amongst others I > may not noticed so far): > > - It broke my lilo, leavi

Re: Problems upgrading from potato to woody

2001-03-27 Thread Ray Percival
I don't know about the lilo isssue but yes the X issue is a well known problem. Do a apt-get install xserver-xfree86 xbase-clients (that one might be xclients-base) xfonts-base xfonts-75dpi xfonts-100dpi and run xf86config to create a xf86config file and you should be fine. -- Original

Problems upgrading from potato to woody

2001-03-27 Thread Daniel Toffetti
Hi All!           I added testing (woody) to my sources.list some days ago and carried out an upgrade of my potato box. I got two main problems (amongst others I may not noticed so far):   - It broke my lilo, leaving me with a missing library (/lib/ld-linux.so.2). I got the file mailed to me

steps in upgrading from potato to woody

2000-02-25 Thread Joseph Anthony de los Santos
hi, If I wanted to upgrade from potato (kernel version 2.2.13) to woody, what steps do I have to do in order to accomplish this? thanks.