Etch to Lenny Upgrade Attempt

2009-08-29 Thread Jason Self
Well, I've finally decided to take the plunge and upgrade from Etch to Lenny, but I'm worried that it may not go well because I seem to be getting a warning. The contents of my /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ lenny main deb-src http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/

Re: Etch to Lenny Upgrade Attempt

2009-08-29 Thread Jason Self
Okay; I've gone through the process and have since restarted. I noticed that aptitude mentioned that 180 upgradeable packages were available. It appears I've run out of space somewhere??? I'm not sure which partition it's claiming to have out of space. Perhaps root? The system in

Re: Etch to Lenny Upgrade Attempt

2009-08-29 Thread Jason Self
Er; sorry. It should be: /home (100.30 GB in size / 60.29 GB free) / (276 MB in size / 30.90 MB free) /swap (2.96 GB) /tmp (392 MB in size / 349.98 MB free) /usr (4.77 GB in size / 3.38 GB free) /var (2.86 GB in size / 2.13 GB free) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Etch to Lenny Upgrade Attempt

2009-08-29 Thread Jason Self
On Aug 29, 2009, at 11:50 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: This is indeed not enough to unpack a linux-image package. Try removing all kernels but the current one. Thank you for the suggestion -- Removing old kernel images appears to have freed up enough space that the upgrade was able to

Remote Install

2006-11-18 Thread Jason Self
Somewhere in a basement on the other side of the planet from me sits a machine with an x86 processor, no OS, and 160GB of local drive space. I want to install Debian Sarge onto it. The only person near enough to do it has no computer experience, although I've convinced them they're willing to do

Configure Login Manager

2006-10-17 Thread Jason Self
I've just finished installing 3.1r3 from the daily-built images. Later versions of the installer allows you to disable the root account during installation, and I think I that I might have found something that's impacted by disabling the root user: Once GDM has started, and the login screen is

Re: Re: Configure Login Manager

2006-10-17 Thread Jason Self
On 10/17/06, Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 05:40:36PM -0700, Jason Self wrote: I've just finished installing 3.1r3 from the daily-built images. Later There are no daily build images for 3.1 (Sarge). If you used daily images, then you installed Etch

/dev/hda3 [/]: Function not implemented

2006-03-14 Thread Jason Self
I'm using Debian for PowerPC. I am looking to add quota support. This isn't my first time using Linux, but it is my first serious attempt, and my first time with Debian. I love Debian's package management stuff. It makes installing and managing software so easy, but I digress... I am looking to

Evolution segmentation faulting on me now

2003-06-05 Thread Jason Self
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