On Lu, 21 feb 11, 10:01:42, PMA wrote: > > I gather from docs that the problem was my ISDN connection which, > after the reboot following "install -udev", Squeeze simply disabled. I'm not sure what you mean here. > 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)? It's difficult to say, because I don't know if the first DVD has all the needed packages to upgrade your box to squeeze. Maybe you should post here the output of 'apt-get dist-upgrade -s' (-s means "simulate"). Hope this helps, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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