well, when i apt-get upgrade to unstable. everything went fine (i'm shocked actually), except for lilo...
thneed:/home/forrest# apt-get install lilo Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 201 not upgraded. 3 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 143kB of archives. After unpacking 82.9kB will be used. Get:1 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main lilo 1:21.7-1 [143kB] Fetched 143kB in 7s (18.7kB/s) (Reading database ... 29011 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace lilo 1:21.4.3-2 (using .../lilo_1%3a21.7-1_i386.deb) .. already preserved: boot.b already preserved: chain.b already preserved: os2_d.b Rotating files /boot/*.preserve to avoid breakage on upgrade error: cannot stat /etc/lilo-rotate.conf: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/lilo_1%3a21.7-1_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/lilo_1%3a21.7-1_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) thneed:/home/forrest# this is me re-running it after the update. anyone got an bright idea's? what exactly is lilo-rotate.conf, and what the heck is it needed for? -- Forrest English http://truffula.net "When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use" -Fugazi
