Re: Ugrade from Lenny to Squeeze on old PC Box
On Thursday 27 May 2010, Paul Chany wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have an old PC Box on which I was run Debian Lenny with kernel
> 2.6.26-2-486. I used it as a Desktop for small jobs.
>
> Yesterday I decided to upgrade it to Squeeze.
> I did the following:
> 1 change the lenny to squeeze in sources.list
> 2 sudo aptitude update
> 3 sudo aptitude install apt dpkg aptitude
> 4 sudo aptitude full-upgrade
>
> When the full-upgrade process come to the 'udev' package, it can't
> upgrade to the squeeze version because the running kernel version wasn't
> enough new. So I decided to force the udev upgrade with creating the
> file: 'that I can't remember which name has'.
>
> After successfully upgrade udev and the remain packages, I install - or
> reinstall linux-image-2.6.30-2-486 and linux-image-2.6.32-3-486.
>
> I have installed the GRUB2 too but yet remain in testing state.
>
> When I booth with the linux-image-2.6.30-2-486 or
> linux-image-2.6.32-3-486 kernel I can't get the HOME and other
> directories but when I booth with the old kernel 2.6.26-2-486 then I get
> the HOME directory and can use the Squeeze system.
>
> How can I fix this so I can use the linux-image-2.6.32-3-486 kernel?
>
> Any advices will be appreciated!
What file system is your HOME directory on? Maybe it is not supported anymore
by the stock 2.6.32-3-486 kernel?
Cheers, Eike
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