I've just got the Cheap*bytes Debian 4 CD set (from the Linux emporium <http://www.polo.demon.co.uk/emporium.html> in the UK - ordered Thurs am, received Fri am!).
Yesterday tried to upgrade my bo system. I ran into the problems that others have found with the cd_autoup.sh script, as well as the lack of a "stable" symbolic link on the cd, but managed to solve these (less elegantly than the posted solutions...). Well into the remainder of the upgrade I started getting e2fs error messages, and wound up losing about half of my home directory. This being Linux and Debian I'm inclined to assume hardware problems first, but I'm asking here in case anyone else has had the same problems. Although I ran script to log the upgrade it doesn't seem to log these error messages. What I now have is a rather full lost+found directory, from which I can salvage quite a bit, and a large number of files that have become block special files which I can do nothing to - can't rm them, and haven't managed to figure out how to turn them into a normal file in case there's something salvageable hidden there. Since I have these scattered around the file system too I suspect I need to do a wipe and reinstall, although the system is acting OK at the moment - I don't think all files installed properly as some files that should have been replaced had turned into block special files and therefore couldn't be overwritten. If anyone has come across these problems I'd like to know, especially if they have some solutions other than a complete re-install. I'd also like to know how to do something to those block special files! Thanks for any pointers, Kevin Dr Kevin Scott Philips Electronics UK Limited Patents and Trade Marks Department Tel: +44 1293 815281 Cross Oak Lane, Redhill Fax: +44 1293 815060 Surrey RH1 5HA, UK E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
