On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 04:19:15AM +0100, s. keeling wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > > On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:18:33 -0400 (EDT)
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Even with computers with BIOS too old to boot from CD, Debian CDs
> provide sbm (smart boot manager) which can boot
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 02:47:09AM +0530, Siju George wrote:
> Is upgrade painful always like this?
Did you read the release notes?
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/releasenotes
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Andrei
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> > On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:18:33 -0400 (EDT)
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> >>Hi, Andrei, I guess you know something I don't know(not that
> >>that's a surprise) Why would I take my netinstall file
> >>(167 Mb) and put it on a CD u
Siju George wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I upgraded from Sarge to Etch one of my servers.
> But the kernel is still the old kernel with sarge in the end and not
> Etch's. Any idea why?
Dont know the answer to your other question.
But in general, the kernel is not upgraded unless you have one of the kernel
> On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:18:33 -0400 (EDT)
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>>Hi, Andrei, I guess you know something I don't know(not that
>>that's a surprise) Why would I take my netinstall file
>>(167 Mb) and put it on a CD unless the CD was _bootable_?
>>The CD would
On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:18:33 -0400 (EDT)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 03:37:18PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >>
>
> >> > image, boot from it, make a minimal install and then continue
> >> > with the DVDs (instead of installing sarge and upgrading to
> >> > etch)?
> >
> On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 03:37:18PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> > image, boot from it, make a minimal install and then continue with the
>> > DVDs (instead of installing sarge and upgrading to etch)?
>> Hi, Andrei, thanks for your suggestion. Unfortunately my (quite
>>
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 03:37:18PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 10:54:14AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >>
> >> Because of foolish mistakes of mine(don't ask!) it turned out I
> >> had to trash my / and /boot partitions, and completely reinstall
> >> sarge, from
> On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 10:54:14AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> Because of foolish mistakes of mine(don't ask!) it turned out I
>> had to trash my / and /boot partitions, and completely reinstall
>> sarge, from my ancient and well-used pile of 12 sarge CDs. This
>> took a while.
>
> Wou
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 10:54:14AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Yesterday was a horrendous day! My goal was to upgrade my
> ancient sarge distribution to etch, using my three etch
> DVDs. It is a complicated problem because my DVD Reader/player
> is external, connected through USB, and my BI
Hi,
Thanks for all of the suggestions, they were really helpful. I wasn't trying
to get the X app to configure the network settings, I just wanted to monitor
network traffic (as in "Oh, it's not flashing, the network is probably down"
type of way). By the way, eth1 is a firewire port which was no
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 10:14:15PM +0600, Luis Hidalgo wrote:
>
> I've managed to fix most of the problems, it seems there was some trouble
> with some packages that were installed (like fglrx-driver and
> nspluginwrapper) that
> had some dependency conflicts that prevented gdm and some other prog
Hello again,
I've managed to fix most of the problems, it seems there was some trouble
with some packages that were installed (like fglrx-driver and
nspluginwrapper) that
had some dependency conflicts that prevented gdm and some other programs to
work correctly (I was in the middle of the upgrade
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 03:57:15PM -0600, Luis Hidalgo wrote:
> I'm having some serious problems with the upgrade. I've followed the
> instructions found here
> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes and I have a "full
> desktop system".
> The message Gtk-WARNING **: cannot ope
On Wed, 30 May 2007 15:57:15 -0600
"Luis Hidalgo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here's the deal:
>
> I'm having some serious problems with the upgrade. I've followed the
> instructions found here
> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes and I have a "full
> desktop syst
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Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
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> testing is a train station in the Denian line. etch is the train car
> currently parked at the testing station for repairs and modifications.
> if you choose testing you will sooner or later be looking at the next
>
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 10:55:47PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote:
> Derek wrote:
>
> > etch and testing are the same thing,using testing instead of etch could
> > lead to a accidental upgrade.
> That upgrade is not accidental: normally, you want to track either stable,
> testing or unstable, you don
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 07:40:18PM -0700, Derek wrote:
> >
> >i guess i was always under the impression that security updates were
> >always for "stable" (sarge) ... sorry.
It used to be that way. It changed recently.
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On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 10:55:47PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote:
> Derek wrote:
>
> > etch and testing are the same thing,using testing instead of etch could
> > lead to a accidental upgrade.
> That upgrade is not accidental: normally, you want to track either stable,
> testing or unstable, you don
Derek wrote:
> etch and testing are the same thing,using testing instead of etch could
> lead to a accidental upgrade.
That upgrade is not accidental: normally, you want to track either stable,
testing or unstable, you don't want to track the next release.
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On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 07:52:28PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 07:40:18PM -0700, Derek wrote:
> > etch and testing are the same thing,using testing instead of etch could lead
> > to a accidental upgrade.
>
> testing is a train station in the Denian line. etch is t
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 10:21:12PM -0400, Shawn Lamson wrote:
> On Sun, 02 Jul 2006 19:00:22 -0700
> Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 08:15:03PM -0400, Shawn Lamson wrote:
> > >
> > > from http://www.debian.org/security/
> > >
> > > You can use apt
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 07:40:18PM -0700, Derek wrote:
> etch and testing are the same thing,using testing instead of etch could lead
> to a accidental upgrade.
testing is a train station in the Denian line. etch is the train car
currently parked at the testing station for repairs and modification
etch and testing are the same thing,using testing instead of etch could lead to a accidental upgrade.On 7/2/06, Shawn Lamson <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:On Sun, 02 Jul 2006 19:00:22 -0700Andrew Sackville-West <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 08:15:03PM -0400, Shawn Lamson wrote:>
On Sun, 02 Jul 2006 19:00:22 -0700
Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 08:15:03PM -0400, Shawn Lamson wrote:
> >
> > from http://www.debian.org/security/
> >
> > You can use apt to easily get the latest security updates. This
> > requires a line such as
>
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 08:15:03PM -0400, Shawn Lamson wrote:
>
> from http://www.debian.org/security/
>
> You can use apt to easily get the latest security updates. This
> requires a line such as
>
> deb http://security.debian.org/ sarge/updates main contrib non-free
>
> in your /etc/apt/sour
deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates maindeb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates mainis what it should be
On 7/2/06, Alejandro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ron Johnson escribió:> Alejandro wrote:>>> Dear all,>> I have DEbian Sarge and I want to upgrade to Etch (testing). I have r
Ron Johnson escribió:
> Alejandro wrote:
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> I have DEbian Sarge and I want to upgrade to Etch (testing). I have read
>>> that I have to modify the sources.list file with the correct
>>> repositories and then execute "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade".
>>>
>>> My question
Use etch instead of testing,that way when etch becomes stable you wont be upgrading to testing again.Here is my sources.list# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot i386 Binary-1 (20060302)]/ etch main
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-freedeb-src ht
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Alejandro wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I have DEbian Sarge and I want to upgrade to Etch (testing). I have read
> that I have to modify the sources.list file with the correct
> repositories and then execute "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade".
>
> My
On Sun, 02 Jul 2006 21:05:26 -0300
Alejandro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I have DEbian Sarge and I want to upgrade to Etch (testing). I have read
> that I have to modify the sources.list file with the correct
> repositories and then execute "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade".
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