Strange, haven't tested it too much on Win9x, that might be the issue... anyhow mind posting your C:\config.sys? Does it have anything along the lines of "Ubuntu" or "grub" written in it? It should look like described in http://grub4dos.sourceforge.net/wiki...r_DOS_from_DOS
Okay, that did the trick. But now when I try to install the Lenny dpkg, I get the following error:
Is the Lenny dpkg imperative?dpkg: regarding ./dpkg_1.14.7_i386.deb containing dpkg, predependency problem: dpkg pre-depends on libc6 (>= 2.6.1-1)
libc6 is installed, but is version 2.3.6.ds1-13etch2.
dpkg: error processing ./dpkg_1.14.7_i386.deb (--install):
pre-dependency problem - not installing dpkg
Errors were encountered while processing:
./dpkg_1.14.7_i386.deb
Last edited by guyver; October 23rd, 2007 at 02:28 AM.
Ayay, seems like you're going to have to do a full dist-upgrade to lenny before you can upgrade to gutsy... see here: http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2007/10...etch-to-lenny/ and here: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.p...ighlight=lenny
Also, the lenny floppy images on the debian ftp site can be found here: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/te.../images/floppy
Might be easier just to start from those
I went ahead with the apt-get update (using all 4 Lenny lines in example of 2nd link) and got the following error:
This is what I put at the beginning of my sources.list file:Reading package lists... Error!
E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
E: Error occured while processing mgetty (NewVersion1)
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_gutsy_universe_ binary-i386_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
If I opt to do a Feisty Xubuntu, can I avoid the Lenny dpkg?deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ lenny main
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ lenny main
deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib
Last edited by guyver; October 23rd, 2007 at 02:56 AM.
Ouch, that doesn't sound good... I think you should start again using the lenny floppies at ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/te.../images/floppy that'll probably save you some time and frustration; you'll be able to upgrade directly to Gutsy that way
As for the rest, I'm not sure; I haven't tried the Debian-to-Ubuntu-by-dist-upgrade conversion approach since Debian Sarge -> Ubuntu 5.10 so things are likely quite different now
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