On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 07:10:26AM -0500, Media 100 wrote: > Chris Tillman wrote: > > > Use dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 -- although I'm not sure that was > > available in potato. Also, woody's xfree 86 has much better support > > for powerpc hardware, so it might be a better idea to just upgrade > > now. That will straighten out a lot of problems. > > Chris, > > Potato does have dpkg-reconfigure, but it returned some message > (sorry not to quote it accurately) about not being able to work on > xserver-xfree86. I eventually decided (for reasons I'll explain) to > bite the bullet and do an apt-get upgrade. It failed completely and > while it doesn't matter at this point (I'll explain that, too), I'm curious > about what I did wrong. Basically I replaced the word potato with the > word woody in sources.list and told it: apt-get dist-upgrade. When it > failed, it suggested I do: apt-get update to replace missing files, so I did. > That did something, but as far as I can tell, not very much (sorry again > not to have preserved the specific messages it returned). > It did return a lot of "404-not found" errors, though. I did not > rerun apt-get dist-upgrade, however, so I don't know if the results of > that would have been different. > Anyway, I would be interested if you have any thoughts on what I'm > doing wrong here. >
Well, yes, you do need to do apt-get update after changing sources.list, I forgot to mention it. Maybe it would be better to substitute 'stable' instead of 'woody'. The non-us sources are no longer valid, so that may explain the 404's. Here is part of my source.list for reference: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main deb http://debian.crosslink.net/debian/ stable main deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main > But, > > At this point, my original kernel (2.2.17) will no longer boot up at all, > returning error messages about (as far as I can tell) bad sectors in the > swap partition. (Although the later kernel -- which actually proved to > only be a 2.2.20 -- will boot up, but, as before, won't do the GUI.) > Basically, I think the drive itself is physically shot > (based on other evidence as well) and I am going to be best > off doing an entirely new installation of woody on a new drive :-( > > Oh, well... > > Anyway, thanks for all your advice and help so far and if you have > any further observations on any of the above, I would be interested > to hear them as well. A new drive certainly wouldn't hurt, particularly since you can get 40G for a few hundred bucks. But you may be jumping the gun a bit here ... -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net
