On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 04:50:34PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 02:49:57PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > After failing to reconstitute my etch system (details abundantly > > available on this mailing list a few months ago), I wiped its partition > > and tried to install etch form scratch using installer release candidate > > one, only to find that lilo crashed when it was trying to make the > > system bootable (installation report has been submitted). > > > > So my next attempt was to copy the still-running sarge system I have on > > another partition into my etch partition, and to try to upgrade the copy > > to etch by changing /etc/apt/sources to read 'etch' where the old one > > reads 'sarge', starting aptitude, and upgrading. > > Hi Hendrik, > > It would have been easier (and still may be) to fix the boot loader > thing on etch than what you've tried. > > When I installed Etch (pre RC1), grub didn't get installed. I rebooted > the installer in rescue mode and installed grub from there and it > worked. You could try that with lilo or switch to grub. > > As far as upgrading, if you check the release notes you'll see that you > have to upgrade aptitude before you do anything else.
I tried that, and got a *huge* raft of proposed deletions -- just from asking for aptitude to be upgraded. > Read the whole > release notes and see if anything else is applicable to your situation. I should have done that, too. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
