On Sun 07 Oct 2018 at 15:33:09 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Sun 07 Oct 2018 at 08:14:05 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > It was recommended that I update to Buster. > > I started with Debian 9.1.0 installed from purchased DVD1. > > [MATE desktop] > > I edited sources.list to access online repository. > > I then followed the instructions at > > [linuxconfig.org/how-to-upgrade-debian-9-stretch-to-debian-10-buster] > > as it had everything conveniently shown. > > > > Everything appeared to go normally up to a point well into the actual > > downloading of the Buster packages. I temporarily lost my internet > > connection. After reconnecting apt-get gave an error message suggesting I > > use "--fix-missing" IIRC. > > > > It appeared to work and boot correctly. > > > > However Gparted no longer appears in the System->Administration menu > > although Synaptic shows it as installed. I blindly chose to tell Synaptic to > > reinstall it. > > > > I installed stretch to another partition which I'm using now. > > Is the Buster install repairable? > > Does gparted run from a terminal?
It does? A missing menu entry is hardly a show-stopper. -- Brian.
