On Saturday 30 June 2007 22:41, Felix Karpfen wrote: > On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:33:09 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:33:09 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > I want to do so beacuse: now I'm still using Debian Sarge, which is > > installed in hda6; I want to install Debian Etch in hda9; then when I'm > > sure that everything is all right with Etch I want to boot from hda9, so > > hda6 can be formatted again. > > Has anyone done this successfully? > > I faced a similar problem, wrote to "linux.debian.user" for advice and > scored a zero response. > > In my case I went ahead, made a backup of Sarge to a newly-created > partition, checked that I could boot into it and then ran a "dist-upgrade" > on my main Sarge partition. > > Result: > > - Etch boots and works perfectly (fortunately); > > - Sarge boots (despite some "fatal" notifications during the boot); > all the tested programs still work; the mouse does not. Running > "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" achieved nothing. > > For the record, I use LILO. > > Felix Karpfen
This is going back a bit, but all my Debian installs started off as Woody 3.0r2, and have been constantly upgraded. I had no mouse problems (ps2 mouse) with the 2.4.27 kernel, but moving to a 2.6.8 kernel caused problems. I had to add to /etc/modules a couple of modules. I can't remember in which order, but at first I had no mouse pointer showing at all. I modprobed one module, then had the mouse pointer, but couldn't move it, then modprobed the second module, and all was working ok. See the 2 modules below. mousedev psmouse Don't know if this helps, but it fixed my problems at the time. Nigel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
