On (26/08/05 15:46), marco_elen wrote: > On (25/08/05 11:27), Raquel Rice wrote: > > > The upgrade "manual" suggests using aptitude dist-upgrade and doing > > the kernel upgrade in a separate step. After upgrading to Sarge, I > > later upgraded the kernel on the server to 2.4.27 and all went well. > > But keep your old kernel around ... just in case. ;-) > > > > BTW ... I'm booting off the SCSI drive too. > > On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 21:33:32 +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > > > I've got an LH3 also upgraded to sarge recently (from an original woody > > install) and upgrading with aptitude worked flawlessly. I also had a > > couple of LHPro200's which I've now given away but the last one also > > upgraded to sarge without a problem. The all booted off the SCSI RAID > > drives. > > > > Regards > > > > Clive > > First of all, thanks to you all. You suggestion are really helpful. But > unfortunately I'm still having troubles and I'm desperate. > > I tried installing Woody (booting with vanilla) and adding as an apt source > only the first CD (yes I have CDs because it's an internal server and can't > connect it to internet). > Then I rebooted and added the first three Sarge CDs (because adding all 14 > CDs requires too much time just to see if things works). > Then I launched apt-get dist-upgrade. > After a few question, it apt-get finished.
After sarge went stable I read of similar problems on the list. Raquel referred above to using aptitude instead of apt-get for the upgrade; I suspect that may have something to do with your problem. Regards Clive > Then I rebooted the machine. > And... THE SYSTEM HANGS. > It just write "LI" (maybe it starts to write LILO?) and hangs :( > > Don't know why, and actually don't know how to proceed. > I'm thinking that there is no way of installing. > Would adding all 7 Woody CDs and all the 14 Sarge CDs make the installation > and upgrade process work? > > Furthermore, I need to have LVM management and this is further compicating > the installation. > > RedHat installs with no problem, but I really liked to have Debian because I > know it is better :). Only that it is so hard to install... > > Best regards, > Marco Ballini > > > > ____________________________________________________________ > 6X velocizzare la tua navigazione a 56k? 6X Web Accelerator di Libero! > Scaricalo su INTERNET GRATIS 6X http://www.libero.it > > -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... ...strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
