Re: udev & /dev/sdaX & lenny2squeeze
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Apr 2010 10:43:12 -0400 (EDT), Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote:
>> On Fri, 9 Apr 2010 09:58:22 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote:
>>>
>>> Migrating from Lenny to Squeeze (or any migration, really) is tricky.
>>
>> I know. I manage fine from bo 2 hamm, from hamm 2 potato, from
>> potato 2 woody, from woody 2 sarge and from sarge 2 lenny.
>
> 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.
>
>>> You can't just change your /etc/apt/sources.list file to point to the
>>> squeeze repositories and then do "aptitude update;aptitude full-upgrade".
>>> The problem you are describing above is only the first of your problems
>>> if you have done that. You need to follow the upgrade outline mentioned
>>> in the Release Notes. You didn't say how you did it, and it's too late
>>> in any case, but I just wanted to mention that while we're on the subject.
>>
>> I did this:
>> - edit /etc/apt/sources.list (changed lenny/stable to squeeze/testing)
>> - aptitude update
>> - aptitude install apt dpkg aptitude
>> - aptitude full-upgrade (few times)
>
> 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.
You must have meant:
issue "aptitude safe-upgrade" *before* the "aptitude full-upgrade"
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