On Sun 19 Aug 2018 at 20:58:28 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 19 August 2018 17:33:32 David Wright wrote:
[...] > > Can you not run your stretch installation then? In a new system, I'd > > mount the old wheezy disk(s) and pull the files across. Leaving the > > wheezy mount there makes it easy to look back at the old system in > > case you forget a file or just want to see how you used to do a > > particular something. > > > That is what I'll likely do when I next boot to it, but the tools to make > that easy are often in the missing list. I did get synaptic to install > mc, but had all sorts of perms problems I didn't expect when I tried to > use it, due I think to the changes in what says is ext4 on both disks. > We will eventually get it sorted I hope. So I'll be, without a doubt, > back with more problems but hopefully making progress over the next week > or so. Progress always puts me in a better mood than I was for the first > post in this thread. My suggestion is along the same lines as David Wright's. Boot the installer and stop when you get to partitioning. Switch to a console (ALT-F2) and mount the wheezy and stretch partitions. Use cp to copy files between the two partitions. -- Brian.
