Re: (Mishap?) upgrading from Woody to Etch

2008-06-20 Thread Adam Hardy (debian)
to generate some image galleries for some images I scp'd over. I guess I could find a java webapp which could do this too if this fails. Thanks! Adam -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Mishap-upgrading-from-Woody-to-Etch-tp12582403p18028029.html Sent from the Debian User mailing

Re: (Mishap?) upgrading from Woody to Etch

2008-06-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 04:51:25AM -0700, Adam Hardy (debian) wrote: [snipped tales of woe regarding mixed systems] I have a 5 year-old system hosted on Xen by a hosting company, which I only use for Java and mysql - currently it's running Woody and being slap-dash, I tried to install a

Re: (Mishap?) upgrading from Woody to Etch

2008-06-20 Thread Adam Hardy
Andrew Sackville-West on 20/06/08 14:38, wrote: On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 04:51:25AM -0700, Adam Hardy (debian) wrote: [snipped tales of woe regarding mixed systems] I have a 5 year-old system hosted on Xen by a hosting company, which I only use for Java and mysql - currently it's running Woody

Re: (Mishap?) upgrading from Woody to Etch

2008-06-20 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 06:38:59AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 04:51:25AM -0700, Adam Hardy (debian) wrote: If I put 'sarge' in all the sources.list urls, I should be able to upgrade to sarge OK? Or is it too late? you should

Re: (Mishap?) upgrading from Woody to Etch

2008-06-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-06-20 15:58 +0200, Adam Hardy wrote: Those upgrade instructions warn: Important! You should not upgrade using telnet, rlogin, rsh, or from an X session managed by xdm, gdm or kdm etc on the machine you are upgrading. That is because each of those services may well be terminated

Re: (Mishap?) upgrading from Woody to Etch

2008-06-20 Thread Adam Hardy
Sven Joachim on 20/06/08 15:06, wrote: On 2008-06-20 15:58 +0200, Adam Hardy wrote: Those upgrade instructions warn: Important! You should not upgrade using telnet, rlogin, rsh, or from an X session managed by xdm, gdm or kdm etc on the machine you are upgrading. That is because each of those

Re: (Mishap?) upgrading from Woody to Etch

2008-06-20 Thread Steve Kemp
On Fri Jun 20, 2008 at 15:13:59 +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: What's the 'virtual console provided by the screen program'? Some sort of bolt-on to ssh? screen is a program which allows you to run commands in windows even on a text console. See here for a reasonable introduction:

Re: Mishap upgrading from Woody to Etch

2007-11-04 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 09.09.07 19:34, Chris Austin wrote: I have had a Debian system working very well since 2003, when I installed it from the Stable system, which was Woody at the time. Recently I wanted to install the gap package, (Groups, Algorithms and Programming computer algebra system), and for this I

Mishap upgrading from Woody to Etch

2007-09-09 Thread Chris Austin
Hi, I have had a Debian system working very well since 2003, when I installed it from the Stable system, which was Woody at the time. Recently I wanted to install the gap package, (Groups, Algorithms and Programming computer algebra system), and for this I had to start upgrading packages to the

Re: Mishap upgrading from Woody to Etch

2007-09-09 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 07:34:22PM +0100, Chris Austin wrote: Hi, I have had a Debian system working very well since 2003, when I installed it from the Stable system, which was Woody at the time. Recently I wanted to ... snipped woes of a partial upgrade ... hit an error trying to upgrade

Upgrading from woody to sarge: niggles and solutions

2005-08-10 Thread Pigeon
Many thanks to the Debian team for the release of sarge as stable. I have now belatedly got round to dist-upgrading, which mostly went smoothly. I did however come across a few problems: 1) Home, End etc. keys not working in jed 2) GTK apps failing to start with relocation error: libXft.so.2:

Re: Emacs21 install problem [upgrading from woody to sarge]

2005-07-23 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 09:40:37AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: TIA, while upgrading from woody to sarge emacs would not properly install. Error info Setting up emacs21 (21.4a-1) ... emacs-install emacs21 install/auctex: Setting up for emacs21... emacs-install: /usr/lib

Emacs21 install problem [upgrading from woody to sarge]

2005-07-22 Thread fbrian
Hello: TIA, while upgrading from woody to sarge emacs would not properly install. Error info Setting up emacs21 (21.4a-1) ... emacs-install emacs21 install/auctex: Setting up for emacs21... emacs-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/auctex emacs21 failed at /usr/lib/emacsen-common

Upgrading from Woody to Sarge on PowerPC

2005-05-12 Thread Kevin
Hi Folks- I'm new to Debian but have 10 years of experience with Linux from Slackware, Mandrake, Redhat, SuSE, and most lately Gentoo. I'm experimenting with Debian in general because of its universality and in particular because Gentoo doesn't seem to have an install capability for the OldWorld

Re: Upgrading from Woody to Sarge on PowerPC

2005-05-12 Thread Kent West
Kevin wrote: OldWorld PowerPC (604e). I recently installed Woody on such a machine using the 3.0r4 binary CDs for PowerPC and the resulting system seems to work fine, but I didn't realize how old the software was in Woody and would like to upgrade to Sarge My /etc/apt/sources.list file reads:

Re: Upgrading from Woody to Sarge on PowerPC

2005-05-12 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: What I would do is return the sources.list file to its original form, and run aptitide update. If the system updates properly, go back into sources.list and comment all but one line. Then change that one line so that instead of stable it reads sarge, And you'll have to change

Re: Upgrading from Woody to Sarge on PowerPC

2005-05-12 Thread Kevin
Hi Kent- Thanks for your reply. Kent West wrote: You'll need to run aptitude update prior to running aptitude -f --with-recommends dist-upgrade. The first step goes out and gets the list of available packages; the next step goes and gets, not the list, but the actual packages. I actually

Re: Problems encountered while upgrading fr 'woody' to 'sarge'

2005-01-02 Thread jianan
I have managed to sort out most of the problems by downloading the kernel source and building a new kernel image and also installing more packages from CD-ROM#1. Those kde 'Warnings' can be turned off via settings in kdebugdialog. Printing is great after installing 'cupsys' from the CD-ROM.

Problems encountered while upgrading fr 'woody' to 'sarge'

2004-12-31 Thread jianan
I have upgraded from 'woody' with kernel-2.6.3 and KDE 3.1 to 'sarge' with kernel-2.6.8 and KDE-3.2.3 using CD-ROM #1. It was not as easy as I had read about. Below are some problems and questions. 1.Cannot boot to gui. Xfree86.0.log with err msg: mouse device not found. OK after following

Re: Problems encountered while upgrading fr 'woody' to 'sarge'

2004-12-31 Thread Kent West
, not upgrading from Woody to Sarge. The way I understand things, you've basically done two upgrades; you've upgraded your kernel, and you've upgraded your distro. I believe it's the kernel upgrade that has caused most of your grief, not the distro upgrade. Next, Cannot get into kde from login. Went

Re: Re: Problems encountered while upgrading fr 'woody' to 'sarge'

2004-12-31 Thread Jianan
I don't think its the upgrading procedure that was wrong. I did both upgrade and dist-upgrade, first from the CD and then online. Message showed 0 to be updated and upgraded. I just tried again online but it failed to connect to ftp://ftp.debian.org. Is the site down? Jianan

Re: Re: Problems encountered while upgrading fr 'woody' to 'sarge'

2004-12-31 Thread Bill Marcum
On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 12:24:18PM +0800, Jianan wrote: I don't think its the upgrading procedure that was wrong. I did both upgrade and dist-upgrade, first from the CD and then online. Message showed 0 to be updated and upgraded. I just tried again online but it failed to connect to

Re: Upgrading the woody kernel

2004-12-07 Thread Felixk Karpfen
On 2004-12-04, Rob Bochan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 04 December 2004 04:42 pm, Felixk Karpfen wrote: snip - please point to documentation, full and sufficiently simple to be understood by amateurs. s'more snip Here's a newbie oriented, step-by-step, set of docs for just that

Upgrading the woody kernel

2004-12-04 Thread Felixk Karpfen
I am aware that this question has been asked and answered umpteen times on this newsgroup and I know that the available options include: - roll your own; and - use the Debian way. However I believe that my situation is sufficiently different that it is worth asking: - which option?; and -

Re: Upgrading the woody kernel

2004-12-04 Thread Rob Bochan
On Saturday 04 December 2004 04:42 pm, Felixk Karpfen wrote: snip - please point to documentation, full and sufficiently simple to be understood by amateurs. s'more snip Here's a newbie oriented, step-by-step, set of docs for just that purpose:

Upgrading from woody to ? sid

2004-11-26 Thread joebosak
I have woody installed but I'm starting to find packages are older than (for example) kernel 2.6.9 seems to require. I'm not sure what to do - do I upgrade to sid? How? Or is this what 'unstable' is about? If I want to use unstable packages, do I just change stable to unstable in my

Re: Upgrading from woody to ? sid

2004-11-26 Thread Paul Dwerryhouse
On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 09:39:25PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have woody installed but I'm starting to find packages are older than (for example) kernel 2.6.9 seems to require. I'm not sure what to do - do I upgrade to sid? You could do that, or you could use one of the backports

upgrading from woody to sarge via cds

2004-11-08 Thread Vijaya S
hi all i downloaded the 14 iso images of sarge i have a woody machine how do i upgrade it to sarge. whats the procedure Regards, Vijaya -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

upgrading from woody to sarge

2004-10-21 Thread Vijaya S
Hi all, I have a mahcine with woody on it..I would like to upgrade it to Sarge. How do i do that? Should i use Sarge cds for that... or edit /etc/apt/sources.list Would i lose any data if i do so.. Its a server so i wouldnt like to lose any data.. How can i accomplish that Regards, Vijaya --

smbfs problems after upgrading from Woody to Sarge

2004-09-10 Thread Sam Snow
Hello, I earlier this week upgraded from woody to sarge on a machine that does a nightly backup to another machine via a samba share. Since then I have had some issues with accessing that share with I believe are a result of the upgrade. I upgraded the kernel at the same time to 2.4.27-1-686 #1

Re: smbfs problems after upgrading from Woody to Sarge

2004-09-10 Thread Sam Snow
Sam Snow said: Hello, snip Further follow-up. I am getting one error message at startup that I don't remember having see before: Sep 10 11:01:20 aslan modprobe: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.4.27-1-686/modules.dep Sep 10 11:01:21 aslan last message repeated 3

upgrading to woody?

2003-12-23 Thread Debian User
firstly, thanks to those who helped me w/ configuring my intel isa- bus ethernet nic. secondly, the machine in question is running kernel 2.2.20-idepci. i don't really recall when it was installed as the machine has been a doorstop in my office for close to a year now. i tried to apt-get some

Re: upgrading to woody?

2003-12-23 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Debian User: firstly, thanks to those who helped me w/ configuring my intel isa- bus ethernet nic. secondly, the machine in question is running kernel 2.2.20-idepci. i don't really recall when it was installed as the machine has been a doorstop in my office for close to a

Re: Upgrading to woody - the saga continues...

2003-06-13 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Rodrigo Agerri wrote: Now my question is: do you still have any other problem? If the answer is no, I do not see why you should worry about those removed packages. ;) This is very true! I have found one new problem (and know how to fix it): the gnome control center doesn't show up the

Re: Upgrading to woody - the saga continues...

2003-06-12 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Rodrigo Agerri wrote: That remarkable Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 17:44, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: Anyhow, my second question is this: is there a better way to find those --- Obsolete and local packages present on system --- than by going into the dreaded dselect? I think that if you get into

Fwd: Re: Upgrading to woody - the saga continues...

2003-06-12 Thread Rodrigo Agerri
That remarkable Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 11:16, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: The following packages will be REMOVED: (list of 66 packages, including gdm, gnome-session, xfonts-base, sawfish) The following NEW packages will be installed: (list of 22 packages) 36 packages upgraded, 22 newly

Upgrading to woody - the saga continues...

2003-06-11 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
This has got to be the longest time without a working system since I started using Debian in november 1995. Of course, when I say 'working' I mean 'with a working desktop' - I still have FTP and all non X-related stuff working, and my system thinks it has completely upgraded OK. Normally I would

Re: Upgrading to woody - the saga continues...

2003-06-11 Thread Rodrigo Agerri
That remarkable Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 15:11, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: What happens now is that the screen blanks for about a second, then the greeter comes back again, without logging in. When I look in ~/.gnome-errors, there are a couple of warnings, but one fatal error which seems to be

Re: Upgrading to woody - the saga continues...

2003-06-11 Thread Kevin Mark
snip /etc/gdm/Sessions/Gnome calls for the execution of another script /usr/bin/gnome-session, which is sadly missing from my system. Despite I did dpkg -s /usr/bin/gnome-session. Its in package 'gnome-session'. looking through the update instructions, I found no mention of this script or

Re: Upgrading to woody - the saga continues...

2003-06-11 Thread eamon-roque
Hi! On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 03:11:53PM +0200, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: snip [...] Anyhow, with a simple apt-get, I now have X working, and can move on to the next problem. Gnome won't start. I have gdm installed, giving me a login dialog (greeter) in which I enter a user id and

Re: Upgrading to woody - the saga continues...

2003-06-11 Thread Kent West
Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: Anyhow, with a simple apt-get, I now have X working, and can move on to the next problem. Gnome won't start. I have gdm installed, giving me a login dialog (greeter) in which I enter a user id and password. Pressing OK would then normally take me to the Gnome desktop

Re: Upgrading to woody - the saga continues...

2003-06-11 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Rodrigo Agerri wrote: That remarkable Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 15:11, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: What happens now is that the screen blanks for about a second, then the greeter comes back again, without logging in. When I look in ~/.gnome-errors, there are a couple of warnings, but one fatal error

Re: Upgrading to woody - the saga continues...

2003-06-11 Thread Wolfgang Fischer
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 16:00:21 +0200, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: Anyhow, with a simple apt-get, I now have X working, and can move on to the next problem. Gnome won't start. I have gdm installed, giving me a login dialog (greeter) in which I enter a user id and password. Pressing OK would

Re: Upgrading to woody - the saga continues...

2003-06-11 Thread Rodrigo Agerri
That remarkable Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 17:44, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: Anyhow, my second question is this: is there a better way to find those --- Obsolete and local packages present on system --- than by going into the dreaded dselect? I think that if you get into dependencies problems

Re: upgrading to woody

2002-10-22 Thread will trillich
dang, this debian is sooo cool. On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 07:31:51PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 12:52:03PM -0500, will trillich wrote: all i can find on debian.org about making the leap is in osamu's document at

upgrading to woody

2002-10-19 Thread will trillich
i know, it's not fresh news, but i'm about ready to jump from potato to woody. all i can find on debian.org about making the leap is in osamu's document at http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-woody.en.html is this still a reasonably sane approach? (of course, we'd have to

Re: upgrading to woody

2002-10-19 Thread Glyn Millington
will trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i know, it's not fresh news, but i'm about ready to jump from potato to woody. Happy landings ;-) I found the simple dist-upgrade just did it - have you any special reason to be apprehensive? Glyn -- Debian Home http://www.debian.org Debian

Re: upgrading to woody

2002-10-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 12:52:03PM -0500, will trillich wrote: all i can find on debian.org about making the leap is in osamu's document at http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-woody.en.html is this still a reasonably sane approach? (of course, we'd have to

Re: Upgrading to Woody

2002-10-03 Thread nate
Iram Mahboob said: Hi, I am new to linux can you please help me in upgrading my kernel. I currently have debian version 2.2.19. I want to upgrade it to 2.4.18. How can I do it? I have tried to do a luckily apt-get does not automatically upgrade the kernel. you can do it manually though:

Re: Upgrading to Woody

2002-10-03 Thread Shyamal Prasad
Iram == Iram Mahboob [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Iram Hi, I am new to linux can you please help me in upgrading my Iram kernel. I currently have debian version 2.2.19. I want to Iram upgrade it to 2.4.18. How can I do it? You are running either Debian Potato or Debian Woody

Re: Errors in upgrading old Woody. Help?

2002-09-10 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 03:51:55PM -0400, David Teague wrote: [snip] dpkg --audit dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 16531 package `cpp-3.0': `Depends' field, reference to `gcc-3.0-base': version contains ` ' It look like there is a

Errors in upgrading old Woody. Help?

2002-09-09 Thread David Teague
Thanks to Scott and others who have been answering my questions. I still have some troubles. I am running Woody installed Nov 2001 on which I have successfully run apt-get update apt-get install aptitude Per discussion in the release notes and upgrade notes, and on this list, I ran the

Re: upgrading debian woody

2002-08-14 Thread Stefan Herrmann
On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 12:02:28AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: 4.2.0 ist von Mitte Jaenner, ich habe meine Zweifel, dass GeForce4-Unterstuetzung da schon drin, leider glaenzt die XFree-Dokumentation nicht durch Aktualitaet. ... Unter [1] (verlinkt von den 4.2.0 Release Notes [2] wenn man

Re: upgrading debian woody

2002-08-14 Thread Eckhard Lehmann
Hallo, [...] (de.debian.org ist bei mir gerade tot. Sonst hättest Du den deutschen Link bekommen) lag an dem Hochwasser in Dresden, da war das ganze (Telefon)Netz tot. Seit vorhin geht der Server aber wieder... Ciao, Eckhard -- Zum AUSTRAGEN schicken Sie eine Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: upgrading debian woody

2002-08-13 Thread Nikolaus Ehrenfeuchter
On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 02:25:39PM +0200, Stefan Herrmann wrote: Habe schon fleißig auf www.debian.org in den docs und in der FAQ gelesen, aber so richtig schlau werde ich aus dem packages-System nicht. Liegt vielleicht auch daran, daß ich zu sehr an FreeBSD gewöhnt bin. Wenn's irgendwo

Re: upgrading debian woody

2002-08-13 Thread Marcus Frings
Tuesday, August 13, 2002, 2:25:39 PM, Stefan Herrmann wrote: ich benutze FreeBSD (4.6) und möchte mal wieder bei Linux reinschnuppern. Angefangen habe ich mal mit SuSE Linux (4.xx), dann bin ich aber über FreeBSD gestolpert und dabei hängengeblieben. Nun möchte ich halt zur Erweiterung

Re: upgrading debian woody

2002-08-13 Thread Wolfgang Kaufmann
* Thus spoke Stefan Herrmann [13-08-02|14:25]: Hallo, 1) Installation mit linux = Kernel 2.2 Diese Installation klappt am besten. Partitioniert, Basissystem installiert, Netzwerk konfiguriert, restliche packages aus dem Internet geladen (über LAN- Gateway) etc. Leider habe ich ab

Re: upgrading debian woody

2002-08-13 Thread Stefan Herrmann
Marcus Frings schrieb: 2) Installation mit bf24 = Kernel 2.4 Partitionieren und Installieren des Basissystems klappt gut, danach erfolgt aber keine Netzwerkkonfiguration, ich kann die noch benötigten packages Huh? Auch bei bf24 wird bei der Installation nach der Netzwerkkonfiguration

Re: upgrading debian woody

2002-08-13 Thread Stefan Herrmann
Nikolaus Ehrenfeuchter schrieb: Du suchst das hier: http://www.openoffice.de/linux/buch/ Danke, ist ein sehr guter Link. Ciao Stefan -- --- Communications powered by FreeBSD --- -- Zum AUSTRAGEN schicken Sie eine Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] mit dem Subject unsubscribe. Probleme? Mail an

Re: upgrading debian woody

2002-08-13 Thread Andreas Metzler
Marcus Frings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tuesday, August 13, 2002, 9:41:15 PM, Stefan Herrmann wrote: [...] Das ist ja schön und gut mit der upgrade-Funktion. X läuft bei mir nicht, da meine GeForce4 nicht erkannt wird in der X Version 4.1.x. Und ein apt-get upgrade sagt mir immer, daß es

Re: upgrading debian woody

2002-08-13 Thread Marcus Frings
Tuesday, August 13, 2002, 11:19:21 PM, Andreas Metzler wrote: Es bleiben natuerlich immer die closed-source Treiber von Nvidia nvidia-kernel-src - NVIDIA binary kernel module nvidia-glx-src - NVIDIA binary XFree86 4.x driver Stimmt - die habe ich vergessen zu erwähnen! Liegt wohl daran,

Re: Plans for upgrading to woody ditching HD

2002-06-16 Thread Scott Henson
On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 11:23, Andrew Perrin wrote: I just realized that I never updated the list on this project. I did as Karl suggested, except skipped the --simulate step (got impatient). Everything worked absolutely flawlessly, except my attempt to write LILO to the new drive without a

Re: Plans for upgrading to woody ditching HD

2002-06-07 Thread Andrew Perrin
I just realized that I never updated the list on this project. I did as Karl suggested, except skipped the --simulate step (got impatient). Everything worked absolutely flawlessly, except my attempt to write LILO to the new drive without a floppy boot. I tried changing /etc/lilo.conf to write to

Plans for upgrading to woody ditching HD

2002-05-13 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings- I have a machine currently running potato. It has four IDE drives in it. /dev/hda does nothing important; it's an old (probably 1993 or 1994) 1.2G whose sole role in life at this point is to have an MBR with LILO to boot DOS, NT, or (99% of the time) Debian. That drive is quickly

Re: Plans for upgrading to woody ditching HD

2002-05-13 Thread Loren Jordan
Andrew, In the section where you are adjusting drive references, you will want to leave /dev/hdc and /dev/hdd drive references alone. You are only messing with the first ide channel, not the second one. They will NOT change. The only exception to this is if you plan on re-jumper'ing and

Re: Plans for upgrading to woody ditching HD

2002-05-13 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Mon, 13 May 2002 09:48:49 -0400 (EDT) Andrew Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings- I have a machine currently running potato. It has four IDE drives in it. /dev/hda does nothing important; it's an old (probably 1993 or 1994) 1.2G whose sole role in life at this point is to have an

Re: Plans for upgrading to woody ditching HD

2002-05-13 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 09:48:49AM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote: Greetings- I have a machine currently running potato. It has four IDE drives in it. /dev/hda does nothing important; it's an old (probably 1993 or 1994) 1.2G whose sole role in life at this point is to have an MBR with LILO to

Re: Plans for upgrading to woody ditching HD

2002-05-13 Thread Andrew Perrin
Thanks to all for the comments. I had assumed that /dev/hd* simply started at a and incremented by 1, but am happy to know the two IDE channels are separate. Karl, thanks for the cautious tips -- I'll pay attention to them :). Note that / and /boot are on hdb, not hda, so there's literally

Re: upgrading to woody

2002-03-04 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 03 March 2002 08:52 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all, I took the plunge and dist-upgraded from potato to woody. so far so good, except for one thing... where did my X server go?? My machine boots to a login prompt and startx doesn't

Re: upgrading to woody

2002-03-04 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 12:52:17AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all, I took the plunge and dist-upgraded from potato to woody. so far so good, except for one thing... where did my X server go?? My machine boots to a login prompt and startx doesn't exist(??) I used to have the x server

Re: upgrading to woody

2002-03-04 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
YOu man need to run: apt-get install xbase-clients xserver-xfree86 Or one or the other. Startx is in xbase-clients. On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 01:20, Greg Madden wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 03 March 2002 08:52 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all, I took

Re: upgrading to woody.

2002-03-04 Thread Scott Henson
On Sun, 2002-03-03 at 22:19, Ross Tsolakidis wrote: newbie here... Just want to make sure I'm doing it the right way. If I want to upgrade to woody from potato... 1) Change the apt sources.list to point to woody. 2) dselect and just upgrade all the packages. If you are useing dselect

Re: upgrading to woody.

2002-03-04 Thread Jason M. Harvey
On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 10:51:53PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: | On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 02:19:40PM +1100, Ross Tsolakidis wrote: | newbie here... | | Just want to make sure I'm doing it the right way. | If I want to upgrade to woody from potato... | | 1) Change the apt sources.list to point

upgrading to woody.

2002-03-03 Thread Ross Tsolakidis
Title: upgrading to woody. newbie here... Just want to make sure I'm doing it the right way. If I want to upgrade to woody from potato... 1) Change the apt sources.list to point to woody. 2) dselect and just upgrade all the packages. Is that it ? Thanks :) -- Ross.

Re: upgrading to woody.

2002-03-03 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 02:19:40PM +1100, Ross Tsolakidis wrote: newbie here... Just want to make sure I'm doing it the right way. If I want to upgrade to woody from potato... 1) Change the apt sources.list to point to woody. 2) dselect and just upgrade all the packages. Personally I

upgrading to woody

2002-03-03 Thread xucaen
hi all, I took the plunge and dist-upgraded from potato to woody. so far so good, except for one thing... where did my X server go?? My machine boots to a login prompt and startx doesn't exist(??) I used to have the x server load at boot time. xucaen

Can't startx after upgrading to woody

2002-02-28 Thread Axel Minck
Hi, I just upgraded my potato to woody, but now i can't start X server and i get the following message (--) no ModulePath specified using default : /usr/X11R6/lib/modules dbe: Unknown error loading module Config Error: /etc/X11/XF86Config: 48 Subsection extmod Module section keyword

Re: Can't startx after upgrading to woody

2002-02-28 Thread D.
Alex therre are at least two versions of Xfree on Woody, which Xfree are you using. I know when I upgraded to Woody my X Server would not start either, I had to download the xserver seperately. And if your using 4.?.? the xconfig file is XF86Config-4. Don --- Axel Minck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: After upgrading to Woody

2002-02-20 Thread Ayman Haidar
Once upon a time Curtis Vaughan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Having finally finished upgrading, I get the following problem in dselect: Although I have chosen no new packages it will tell me after entering Install: The following NEW packages will be installed:

After upgrading to Woody

2002-02-19 Thread Curtis Vaughan
Having finally finished upgrading, I get the following problem in dselect: Although I have chosen no new packages it will tell me after entering Install: The following NEW packages will be installed: pcmcia-modules-2.4.17-386 Which was the 2nd package of updates I did after the packages for

Re: After upgrading to Woody

2002-02-19 Thread dman
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 06:09:48PM -0800, Curtis Vaughan wrote: | | Having finally finished upgrading, I get the following problem in dselect: | Although I have chosen no new packages it will tell me after entering Install: | | The following NEW packages will be installed: |

Re: After upgrading to Woody

2002-02-19 Thread Oki DZ
On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Curtis Vaughan wrote: Having finally finished upgrading, I get the following problem in dselect: Although I have chosen no new packages it will tell me after entering Install: The following NEW packages will be installed: pcmcia-modules-2.4.17-386 Which was the 2nd

Upgrading to Woody and Config'ing

2001-12-12 Thread Ian Chilton
Hello, ** I am not subscribed to the list, so please CC replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** I have just been given remote access to a box I am going to use as a server. It has Debian 2.2 (stable) installed. (It's a Sun Ultra 1 (sparc64)). What I want to do is the following: - Remove unwanted

Re: Upgrading to Woody and Config'ing

2001-12-12 Thread Paolo Falcone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ian Chilton wrote: Hello, ** I am not subscribed to the list, so please CC replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** I have just been given remote access to a box I am going to use as a server. It has Debian 2.2 (stable) installed. (It's a Sun Ultra 1

Re: Upgrading to Woody and Config'ing

2001-12-12 Thread Ian Chilton
Hello, Thanks for the reply! I don't recommend installing all packages then getting rid of them one by one. One - you can't install all packages for some packages conflict with other packages. Two - not a good policy on simplicity's grounds, as production environments shouldn't be burdened

Re: Upgrading to Woody and Config'ing

2001-12-12 Thread Mark Lanett
dpkg -l or dpkg --get-selections From: Ian Chilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] I ment, before I do the dist-upgrade, I wanted to remove stuff from the base install that I didn't want..

Notes on upgrading potato - woody

2001-11-15 Thread Aaron Hall
I finally took the plunge and upgraded a non-critical server (just runs my domain :) to woody the other day. After having read this list for several months, I was prepared for what I thought could be a challenge. It wasn't, really, but I do have a bit of feedback, and a couple of questions. First

docs on upgrading potato - woody

2001-10-28 Thread Eric Smith
looked around on debian.org and found nothing. Please supply pointer to documentation on (safe(er)) ways of upgrading. thanx -- Eric Smith

Re: docs on upgrading potato - woody

2001-10-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 11:15:24AM +0100, Eric Smith wrote: looked around on debian.org and found nothing. Please supply pointer to documentation on (safe(er)) ways of upgrading. Since woody hasn't been released yet, it isn't really possible to keep such documentation up to date

Re: upgrading to WOODY

2001-10-20 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake D.: Hi All I'm running Potato 2.2.r3 on a HP Pavilion 5450 (PII 800 MGZ) with a EN2242 Nic Card that I had to configure the tulip driver for. I did a dist upgrade and keep receiving the error not preconfiguring the package apt-utils is not installed. My question is when you

Re: upgrading to Woody, apt-utils question

2001-10-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 04:17:53PM -0700, D. wrote: I did a dist upgrade to Woody and keep receiving the error not preconfiguring the package, apt-utils is not installed. My question is when you do a upgrade like this why isn't apt-utils installed with the upgrade if it is required for

upgrading to WOODY

2001-10-19 Thread D.
Hi All I'm running Potato 2.2.r3 on a HP Pavilion 5450 (PII 800 MGZ) with a EN2242 Nic Card that I had to configure the tulip driver for. I did a dist upgrade and keep receiving the error not preconfiguring the package apt-utils is not installed. My question is when you do a upgrade like this

upgrading to Woody, apt-utils question

2001-10-19 Thread D.
Hi All I'm running Potato 2.2.r3 on a HP Pavilion 5450 (PIII 800 MGZ) with a EN2442 Nic Card that I had to configure the tulip driver for. I did a dist upgrade to Woody and keep receiving the error not preconfiguring the package, apt-utils is not installed. My question is when you do a

Re: upgrading to Woody, apt-utils question

2001-10-19 Thread Bastiaan Huisman
-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2001 1:17 AM Subject: upgrading to Woody, apt-utils question Hi All I'm running Potato 2.2.r3 on a HP Pavilion 5450 (PIII 800 MGZ) with a EN2442 Nic Card that I had to configure the tulip driver for. I did a dist upgrade to Woody and keep

Re: upgrading to Woody, apt-utils question

2001-10-19 Thread D.
that. Bastiaan Huisman [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.student.kun.nl/b.huisman - Original Message - From: D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2001 1:17 AM Subject: upgrading to Woody, apt-utils question Hi All I'm running Potato

Mouse problems after upgrading to Woody (X4)

2001-09-09 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
-- __ Daniel de los Reyes S2-Desarrollo, Grupo S2 Valencia Spain e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Debian GNU-Linux 2.2r3 __ ---BeginMessage--- After an upgrade to Woody and X 4 , and quite a bit of a trouble to be able to get my X back

Re: Mouse problems after upgrading to Woody (X4)

2001-09-09 Thread ktb
+0200 From: Daniel de los Reyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lista de Debian-KDE debian-kde@lists.debian.org Subject: Mouse problems after upgrading to Woody (X4) User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i After an upgrade to Woody and X 4 , and quite a bit of a trouble to be able to get my X back to work, T can't

Re: Mouse problems after upgrading to Woody (X4)

2001-09-09 Thread Daniel de los Reyes
-Linux 2.2r3 -| __ -| -| Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 18:42:24 +0200 -| From: Daniel de los Reyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -| To: Lista de Debian-KDE debian-kde@lists.debian.org -| Subject: Mouse problems after upgrading to Woody (X4) -| User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i -| -| After

Re: Mouse problems after upgrading to Woody (X4)

2001-09-09 Thread ktb
problems after upgrading to Woody (X4) -| User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i -| -| After an upgrade to Woody and X 4 , and quite a bit of a trouble to be -| able to get my X back to work, T can't get my mouse to work correctly. -| From time to time it gets frozen -| This is the output of the X

Re: Mouse problems after upgrading to Woody (X4)

2001-09-09 Thread Sean Quinlan
* Daniel de los Reyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] (2001-09-09 18:40): El Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 12:02:35PM -0500, ktb dijo: -| On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 06:44:23PM +0200, Daniel de los Reyes wrote: -| Shut down gpm and see if your mouse works. -| # /etc/init.d/gpm stop -| -| You might have to point your

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