Re: upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy
[OOps, looks like I've jumped in when Bob's already helping. Feel free
to wait and see what Bob suggests, although I can't see any problem with
trying the following]
On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 11:47:46AM +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Dec 2012, Chris Bannister wrote:
>
> >What is output of:
> >
> >apt-cache policy udev
>
> udev:
> Installed: 164-3
> Candidate: 175-7
OK, still squeeze udev
> >uname -a
>
> Linux pfr2 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem #1 SMP Sun Sep 23 10:27:25 UTC 2012 i686 GNU/Linux
and squeeze kernel
> >apt-get -f install
>
> Reading package lists...
> Building dependency tree...
> Reading state information...
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1763 not upgraded.
> PS: it seems that I'll have to do a Wheezy fresh install ...
What!, no way. :)
What I'd do is: (as root)
apt-get update
apt-get install linux-image-3.2.0-4-686-pae udev grub apt dpkg
Does the output indicate it is OK to proceed? If not, please post here
the error messages. Don't worry about any extra packages it wants to
install, do worry about any packages it wants to remove.
If ok, then I'd proceed ensuring there are no errors in the process,
particulary from grub when it updates the menu and generates the initrd.
If there are errors, Don't reboot, but post them here.
You can run update-grub (as root) manually, if necessary.
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