Re: bo to hamm upgrade
Scott K. Ellis wrote: Neither. If you remove libc5, you will break your system and have to reinstall completely. I repeat, DO NOT FORCE THE REMOVAL OF LIBC5 UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. Well, although nearly fatal, I didn't have to do a complete reinstall. I did go ahead and remove libc5 and was surprised at how many things it broke. It broke things real good. :-) Since I did have a spare partition on this machine I went ahead and used an old copy of Debian 1.2 and installed the 6-disk base system on it, then booted from that, mounted my normal root partition (after fsck'ing it, of course), and copied over libc5 to my normal partition. That allowed me to boot from my normal root partition where I reinstalled the libc5*.deb and thanked God for looking out for fools like me. Either downgrade to the earlier version of libc5 I list at the end of the howto, or upgrade both libc5 and libc6 from hamm on the same dpkg command line. I wound up doing the downgrade and then installing libc6. Worked like a charm -- the new dpkg is happily downloading hamm files right now. Thanks much for the info Scott... -- Regards, | Debian GNU/ __ o .|/ / _ _ _ _ _ __ __ Randy| / /__ / / / \// //_// \ \/ / ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | // /_/ /_/\/ /___/ /_/\_\ | ...because lockups are for convicts... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: bo to hamm upgrade
On Sat, 27 Dec 1997, Randy Edwards wrote: reinstall. I did go ahead and remove libc5 and was surprised at how many things it broke. It broke things real good. :-) Since I did Yup. :) have a spare partition on this machine I went ahead and used an old copy of Debian 1.2 and installed the 6-disk base system on it, then booted I have my original copy of the Debian 1.2 rescue disk (the one I used long ago to boot debian and install the first time), and it's bailed me out more times than I can count ... it is possible to do most of these system repairs using just that disk, because you can boot and mount your filesystems with it, then do repairs as long as you can use ae instead of emacs. I recommend keeping a couple copies of this disk around. Will -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ | -- |The problem with computers: | || | rivendell[501] [~] love me | | bash: love: command not found | | rivendell[502] [~] hug me| | bash: hug: command not found | -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: bo to hamm upgrade
On Sat, Dec 27, 1997 at 09:30:56PM -0500, Randy Edwards wrote: Scott K. Ellis wrote: Neither. If you remove libc5, you will break your system and have to reinstall completely. I repeat, DO NOT FORCE THE REMOVAL OF LIBC5 UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. Well, although nearly fatal, I didn't have to do a complete reinstall. I did go ahead and remove libc5 and was surprised at how many things it broke. It broke things real good. :-) Since I did Err, yeah; we don't put those dependencies in for their good looks! :-) Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
bo to hamm upgrade
Does anyone have a set of instructions for hand upgrading a working bo system to the present hamm? I saw some such instructions posted a month or so ago, but didn't have the foresight to save the message. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated; thanks in advance. Regards, | Debian GNU/ __ o .|/ / _ _ _ _ _ __ __ Randy| / /__ / / / \// //_// \ \/ / ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | // /_/ /_/\/ /___/ /_/\_\ | ...because lockups are for convicts... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: bo to hamm upgrade
Does anyone have a set of instructions for hand upgrading a working bo system to the present hamm? I saw some such instructions posted a month or so ago, but didn't have the foresight to save the message. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated; thanks in advance. You can find them in the unstable tree of the ftp site with the installation instructions. rick -- These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pays my retainer. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: bo to hamm upgrade
On Sat, Dec 27, 1997 at 01:14:56PM +0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have a set of instructions for hand upgrading a working bo system to the present hamm? I saw some such instructions posted a month or so ago, but didn't have the foresight to save the message. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated; thanks in advance. You can find them in the unstable tree of the ftp site with the installation instructions. Or online: http://www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.html Have Fun! Marcus -- Rhubarb is no Egyptian god. Debian GNU/Linux Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: bo to hamm upgrade
Marcus Brinkmann wrote: http://www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.html Thanks Marcus! One quick question if you don't mind: When installing libc6 in place of libc5, should I force the removal of the essential libc5 package first or force the installation of libc6 in addition to libc5? I'm assuming it's the former, but want to make sure first. Thanks in advance. -- Regards, | Debian GNU/ __ o .|/ / _ _ _ _ _ __ __ Randy| / /__ / / / \// //_// \ \/ / ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | // /_/ /_/\/ /___/ /_/\_\ | ...because lockups are for convicts... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: bo to hamm upgrade
On Sat, 27 Dec 1997, Randy Edwards wrote: Marcus Brinkmann wrote: http://www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.html Thanks Marcus! One quick question if you don't mind: When installing libc6 in place of libc5, should I force the removal of the essential libc5 package first or force the installation of libc6 in addition to libc5? I'm assuming it's the former, but want to make sure first. Thanks in advance. Neither. If you remove libc5, you will break your system and have to reinstall completely. I repeat, DO NOT FORCE THE REMOVAL OF LIBC5 UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. Either downgrade to the earlier version of libc5 I list at the end of the howto, or upgrade both libc5 and libc6 from hamm on the same dpkg command line. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
