Re: lenny to squeeze upgrade health check....

2011-02-10 Thread Michael Fothergill
I think with the next upgrade I am about to do I will back up the work I started to do the back up with nautilus as a user and then as well as backing up my work files I included the recommended /etc and var/lib directories that the upgrade procedure advises.. But the burner reader couldn't

Re: lenny to squeeze upgrade health check....

2011-02-07 Thread Michael Fothergill
http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/releasenotes OK, I went and read it. I also installed gdm on the current machine and it fixed the window manager problem. Now I want upgrade another machine from Lenny to Squeeze so I am going to try and do it more carefully this time. I notice that

Re: lenny to squeeze upgrade health check....

2011-02-07 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi Michael, Michael Fothergill wrote: http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/releasenotes # script -t 2~/upgrade-squeeze.time -a ~/upgrade-squeeze.script This is not specific to the upgrade, it can be used at any time (almost). A very dumb question I have about this is do you do aptitude

Re: lenny to squeeze upgrade health check....

2011-02-07 Thread Michael Fothergill
# script -t 2~/upgrade-squeeze.time -a ~/upgrade-squeeze.script This is not specific to the upgrade, it can be used at any time (almost). It records the screen and any text printed to it or entered from the keyboard.  What's more, you can replay it at different speeds if you like -- slow it

Re: lenny to squeeze upgrade health check....

2011-02-07 Thread Darac Marjal
On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 03:27:21PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: # script -t 2~/upgrade-squeeze.time -a ~/upgrade-squeeze.script But how do you turn it off? I mean after the upgrade is over and you don't need it any more do you type something in like script -stop

Re: lenny to squeeze upgrade health check....

2011-02-07 Thread Greg Madden
On Monday 07 February 2011 04:44:54 am Michael Fothergill wrote: I think with the next upgrade I am about to do I will back up the work files run this script, install a new a kernel and play around with some of the other instructions and then finally do the aptitude dist-upgrade and see how

lenny to squeeze upgrade health check....

2011-02-06 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Folks, I upgraded from Lenny to Squeeze on my AMD64 box. It did work but I got some grumbles about the package grabbing applet not being able to find some files it wanted from the repositories and some grumbling about one or two disorganised package dependencies in Openoffice and other

Re: lenny to squeeze upgrade health check....

2011-02-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In AANLkTi=2xpk3ejz0gedmmn7umyo9zohs784czw7j1...@mail.gmail.com, Michael Fothergill wrote: I upgraded from Lenny to Squeeze on my AMD64 box. It did work but I got some grumbles about the package grabbing applet not being able to find some files it wanted from the repositories and some grumbling

Re: lenny to squeeze upgrade health check....

2011-02-06 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 06 February 2011 12:13:33 pm Michael Fothergill wrote: Dear Folks, I upgraded from Lenny to Squeeze on my AMD64 box. It did work but I got some grumbles about the package grabbing applet not being able to find some files it wanted from the repositories and some grumbling about