Re: Lenny-to-Squeeze: ... and no net. (Sorry, reSending)
On Sun, 2011-02-13 at 13:04 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Sb, 12 feb 11, 20:43:55, armstrng@eskimo.com wrote:
> > Hi List.
> >
> > In the midst of upgrading Lenny to Squeeze - specifically, upon reboot
after
> > installing the new kernel and udev - I find that:
> >
> > 1) My external hard drive, whose partitions Lenny had always happily
mounted
> > with fstab lines like "/dev/sdc1 /mnt/u/0 auto rw,user,noauto 0
0",
> > gets no mounts at all.
>
> Is this copy-pasted from fstab?
>
> > FYI: the drive isn't completely ignored, as a kern.log line lists
all its
> > partitions; and I am able to mount each manually using the old
syntax.
>
> Could you please post the relevant log lines and exact comand line that
> works
>
> > Does Squeeze require upgraded fstab-entry parameters (in addition
> > to the
> > new device specification)? Or -- what else should I be asking?
>
> Device names may change from hda to sda and so, I'm not aware of other
> changes.
>
> > 2) There is no net connection. (So I'm writing this from another
computer.)
> > And dmesg.0 now mentions "Tigon3". Does this mean that I need to
append
> > "contrib non-free" after "main" in /etc/sources.list, and then
re-execute
> > "apt-get upgrade"? And then re-install both the new kernel and
udev?
>
> This lacks a lot of information to be able to start guessing what's
> wrong and it would be better to start a separate thread about it.
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MY APOLOGIES FOR RESENDING. Iceweasel mishandled a lot of my mail --
maybe this, maybe your reply. If you have responded already, please
resend as well. (I've got Iceape Mail instead now, working ok.)
Hi again, Andrei.
I gather from docs that the problem was my ISDN connection which,
after the reboot following "install -udev", Squeeze simply disabled.
So I've now on another box downloaded debian-6.0.0-i386-DVD-1-iso
and cat'd it to a usb stick; then on my half-upgraded box mounted the
stick on /media/usbdisk and edited /etc/apt/sources.list to say just
deb file:/media/usbdisk stable main contrib
And now I've run "apt-get update", which responds
Get:1 file: stable Release 900B
[though] Ign file: ... [the specified components]
At this point, can I safely proceed with "apt-get dist-upgrade"
(the upgrade-doc's first command (4.4.6) after that reboot)?
Thanks again for your time.
Pete
P.S. The "missing mounts" issue (stupid mistake of mine) is fixed.
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> Please include at a minimum your /etc/network/interfaces (or mention if
> you use network-manager), the relevant lspci line, the relevant lines in
> dmesg and the output of 'ifconfig -a' and 'uname -a'.
>
> Regards,
> Andrei
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