Debian bug report logs - #1617
R6 intstall from R5

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Subject: Re: Bug#1617: R6 intstall from R5 
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From: Bruce Perens <bruce@Pixar.com>

Ian,

Please make the root disk create /sbin/unconfigured.sh on the hard disk just
before it extracts the base floppies. I will remove it from the base once
you upload the root disk that does this.

	Thanks

	Bruce

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Subject: Re: Bug#1617: R6 intstall from R5

For this reason, I think it would be a really good idea to remove
/sbin/unconfigured.sh from the base package.  We can get it into the
installed system by either copying it separate from any package into
the base system, or by coping it from the installation program to the
proper location once the base system is installed.

The only time it is used is during initial installation--it shouldn't
affect upgrading an already-installed system.

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From: karl@tower.com.au (Karl Ferguson)
Subject: R6 intstall from R5
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Package: base
Version: 0.93.6-8

Hi...

When the ftp.debian.org mirror site opened up to allow R6 to come out, I 
nabbed it as any mirror site should.  Now, I installed the above package in 
base thinking that THAT was what I needed to upgrade to the R6 system since 
I've already installed the latest version of all the packages etc etc.  It 
prompted me if I wanted to install a new /etc/passwd etc etc of which i said 
no, and installed normally.  Then today, I had a power surge - to computers 
turned off and rebooted.

I got a rude message at bootup saying that i had to install the R6 basedisk or 
configure it or something.  Now, HOW the hell can I get the basedisk onto a 
floppy when I cant boot up my box to get the image? :-)  Solution was to boot 
(luckily I had one) a R5 boot/rootdisk and mount the root FS - then moving the 
file '/sbin/unconfigured.sh' to something else and reboot again.  That was 
most annoying - but at least I worked around the problem - we shouldnt really 
need to boot of a R6 basedisk to install R6 from R5 should we?

Of course I could be completely mis-informed, if so, tell me and I'll shoot 
myself in the foot :-)

Regards

...Karl

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