Lenny upgraded to Squeeze
Debian has been wanting reports for Lenny upgrades to Squeeze, so I bit
the bullet and did the upgrade this morning, I logged out and shutdown
x, I use SMXI, so I told smxi to shutdown x for me, it's easier for me
and I only have to remember the one command, I had already completely
updated Lenny and then changed my sources to Squeeze, so I did aptitude
update and aptitude full-upgrade and basically I just let aptitude do
it's thing, one problem was aptitude wanted to restart a list of
services and one of them was kdm, so do yourself a favor and remove kdm
from the list to restart or you will have a mess with x going while
underneath x where you can't see aptitude will still be doing it's thing
and you will not be able to get back to see what aptitude is doing, I
won't tell you what I had to do to recover my system because you won't
make that mistake of letting aptitude restart kdm.
After the full-upgrade there where somethings I wanted to check so I did
aptitude search linux-image to make sure I had the squeeze kernel
installed and it was but grub was not configured to use the new kernel
so I ran grub-update, if you have grub installed to the MBR that's about
all you need to know and good luck if you decide to do the upgrade.
As for me, I did aptitude --purge remove grub-pc and then made sure I
had completely removed grub and grub-common too, then installed
grub-legacy and ran update-grub to make sure I had a working menu.lst
before rebooting.
Debian is saying at Squeeze release grub-legacy will no longer be
supported, that's something for us all to think about.
--
Jimmy Johnson
Debian Lenny upgraded to Squeeze - KDE 4.4.5 at sda9
Registered Linux User #380263
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