Re: hosed etch upgrade
Given the mess I've now reached, decided the easiest thing is to do a
full install of etch from scratch and restore data from backup... please
ignore previous message...
Graham
Graham Seaman wrote:
Hi,
I had a system which had been running updates from test (ie. etch) for
a while and when etch was formally released like an idiot decided I
could do the final upgrade without reading the upgrade documents...
Result: I rebooted before having upgraded the kernel (I'm on
2.6.8-2-686) and so udev doesn't work and I have no network access
(ie. no eth0). I decided the easiest way round this would be to do a
kernel upgrade, but the machine also has no floppy drive so I've been
burning CDs trying to get all the necessary dependencies over as I
find the ones I've missed. I've now run out of CDs so about to set off
to buy some more (unfortunately nowhere near here sells debian cd sets
:-(
Currently I am trying to install linux-image-2.6.18-4-686, which
requires a ramdisk creator, which I didn't have. As yaird has fewer
nested dependencies than initramfs I went that way, but now get the
error message during installation:
yaird error: destination /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-4-686.new already
exists (fatal)
This error message persists when I remove the offending file. Does
anyone have any ideas - or know if there is an easier approach to get
my system back? (eg. some way to switch off udev and get my network
back manually)
Thanks!
Graham
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