On Monday 20 August 2018 13:53:14 Brian wrote: > 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.
If push comes to shove, I'll see if a wheezy disk can be mounted to a stretch mount point. Someplace in the last 2 days ISTR trying that after booting stretch, and mount worked but navigating in the disk failed, the root was all I could see, and when I rebooted to wheezy, I had a 15+ minute pause while it did an e2fsck to most of that 1 terabyte disk, without reporting any errors found that it told me about on the boot screen. That would spook most anybody I think. But now, for no known reason, stretch's network has gone away. And all the tools I am familiar with have been excised from stretch. Sigh... Thanks Brian. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
