Re: udev & /dev/sdaX & lenny2squeeze
Stephen Powell wrote:
If you've been around that long, then why is it that you didn't know to
reply to the list instead of to me personally? Please post *and* reply
*only* to the list. You can CC someone if they ask for a CC, but always
include the list as one of your recipients.
As I said my desktop is broken, and I had to use some other computers to
set up an "emergency" e-mail account to be able to subscribe to the list
and post. I normally use mutt which knows how to reply to the lists (L).
I use now, here, icedove, I don't know why it sent you the e-mail
instead of the list. Sorry about that.
That is not the proper procedure. Read the release notes.
The most important step you missed is to issue "aptitude dist-upgrade"
*before* the "aptitude full-upgrade", but there are other steps you left
out as well. I speak from experience. I tried to upgrade a system from
Etch to Lenny by "winging it" and not following the upgrade procedure
listed in the release notes, and my system was almost unusable. Fortunately
I had another system on which I had installed Lenny directly, and by comparing
installed packages between the install-Lenny-from-scratch system and the
upgrade-from-Etch-to-Lenny system I was eventually able to recover my system.
But it took many days. Following the upgrade procedure in the release notes
is very important. Take it from one who learned that the hard way.
It looks like I also had to learn the hard way. I never had similar
problems before with any upgrade...
Neither do I. Maybe someone else has some ideas, but I'm out. I don't know
about you, but I know what I would do if it were me. I'd reinstall from
scratch. (I always keep /home in a separate partition for just such
occasions as this.) I'd reinstall from scratch and reformat the / partition.
If you don't have /home as a separate partition then back up the /home directory
somewhere first so you won't lose your personal files. I strongly recommend
that you make /home a separate partition in your new install, if it isn't now.
Yes, this is what I will do on Monday. I have /home, /usr, /var and
/usr/local on separate partitions, so I will not cry after the data on
the / partition.
I also recommend that you use the latest "daily build" development version
of the Debian installer if you want to install Squeeze directly.
That's the only version of the D-I that I trust to install Squeeze at this
point. Good luck.
I think I know what went wrong. I used an older net-install disk from
testing when lenny was not stable. I misslabeled the CD. My bad!
If I had known in advace how much work it was going to be to recover my damaged
system from a bad upgrade attempt, I wouldn't have even tried. I would have
reinstalled from scratch. You've got your system hosed up much worse than
mine was. I recommend that you reinstall from scratch. And next time,
read (and carefully follow) the release notes when you do an upgrade.
Lesson learned.
Sorry for the noise.
Best regards,
Ionel
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