it took some trial and error (yes, I'm a bit of a noob) but I got my system
back running and fixed the upgrade problem at the same time.
breakd down:
booted to a live cd and used cmd line (with sudo) in terminal window to mount
my ext3 and change that volume to the root.
sudo mkdir
correction, I meant intrepid -jaunty.
have also learned what not to do:
if you have tried the above and notice the updates available icon. DO NOT
click on install updates. Doing this runs updates off CD which are
incompatible with intrepid. End result when re-boot is a drop into initramfs
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: debian-installer
When trying to upgrade from 8.10 to 9.04 (hardy-jaunty) using the alternate
install CD the upgrade will not complete due to lack of network connection.
Steps - insert cd; choose upgrade, select the no network option in subsequent
