Hey all --

I'm currently running Debian in largely the same state as I installed it several months ago (haven't had time to play). It's very outdated
(/proc/version = Linux version 2.2.20-idepci (herbert@gondolin) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #1 Sat Apr 20 12:45:19 EST 2002),
and I've been trying to update to a newer kernel,
Debian release, and update packages. I've failed on all of them.

Per 2.6 Kernel upgrade post, I ran
apt-get -t unstable install kernel-image-2.6.7-1-386

and received
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package kernel-image-2.6.7-1-386


Next, I tried Debian's instructions to update:
apt-get update
followed by
apt-get dist-upgrade

This successfully reads the package lists, and builds dependency tree, but I then receive an error as it is apparently trying to upgrade
netsaint:

dpkg: error processing netsaint (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
netsaint
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)



Any suggestions what I can do to start getting this updated correctly??
Thank you!

Dist-upgrade to Sarge or Sid, it will install all the up-to-date tools you need, besides, Sarge will the stable version shortly.
From there you will be able to install a kernel-image for 2.6.

Not exactly releated to your problem, but I'd recommend going with the kernel-2.6.8-1 package. I've been running it for a while and haven't had any problems. But 2.6.9 has a lot of problems, from what I've heard.

Edit - Whoops, just saw this in another thread: "So meanwhile you will all have to stick with kernel 2.6.7, that is if you want to be able to burn audio cd's which isn't possible with kernel 2.6.8 or 2.6.8.1". I hadn't even tried to do that yet (hell, I'm still trying to get my burner mounted!) Hrm. I might downgrade to 2.6.7.

Thank you for your replies. I edited my sources.list to 'testing' to obtain Sarge, however now I've run into the issue that my /var partition is not large enough to hold all the updated files:

Sorry, you don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/ to hold all the .deb s.


I've been researching partition magic-like open-sourceware to fix this issue -- would GNU parted be suitable?

error received while configuring parted:

checking for uuid_generate in -luuid... no
configure: error: GNU Parted requires libuuid - a part of the e2fsprogs package (but sometimes distributed separately in uuid-devel or similar)

It's likely you can figure out what packages are going to be updated, then download them one by one and put them on CD/DVD. Otherwise, just download the first few recent sarge discs, it's likely the packages you need are on there. Then follow the guide @ debian.org for adding a CD/DVD to your sources.list.

Otherwise, buy a bigger harddisk

@talkingwires

I have no problems burning audio discs with 2.6.8, 2.6.8.1, or 2.6.9 (what I'm currently using). I'm using a standard ide dvd-burner.

Thanks six6 -- I'll give that a try tomorrow.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by rdd
[B]Thank you for your replies. I edited my sources.list to 'testing' to obtain Sarge, however now I've run into the issue that my /var partition is not large enough to hold all the updated files:

Sorry, you don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/ to hold all the .deb s.
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#apt-get clean

Also install debfoster, deborphan, and localepurge (read the sticky)

change your sources.list to 'sarge', instead of 'testing', when the current sarge becomes 'stable' (shortly), you won't have to change anything, 'testing' is very unstable, more so than 'sid', IMHO, that's where they test everything and runs behind 'stable' and 'sid' in terms of bugs and stability.

Read the sticky at the top of the page: Debian Configuration Post-install and the subsequent postings in that thread, it might answer/solve some of your problems in the future.