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Re: painted into a corner

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On Sun 19 Aug 2018 at 20:58:28 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:

> On Sunday 19 August 2018 17:33:32 David Wright wrote:

[...]
 
> > Can you not run your stretch installation then? In a new system, I'd
> > mount the old wheezy disk(s) and pull the files across. Leaving the
> > wheezy mount there makes it easy to look back at the old system in
> > case you forget a file or just want to see how you used to do a
> > particular something.
> >
> That is what I'll likely do when I next boot to it, but the tools to make 
> that easy are often in the missing list. I did get synaptic to install 
> mc, but had all sorts of perms problems I didn't expect when I tried to 
> use it, due I think to the changes in what says is ext4 on both disks. 
> We will eventually get it sorted I hope.  So I'll be, without a doubt, 
> back with more problems but hopefully making progress over the next week 
> or so. Progress always puts me in a better mood than I was for the first 
> post in this thread.

My suggestion is along the same lines as David Wright's.

Boot the installer and stop when you get to partitioning.
Switch to a console (ALT-F2) and mount the wheezy and stretch
partitions. Use cp to copy files between the two partitions.

-- 
Brian.

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painted into a corner Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-08-19 21:50 +0200
  Re: painted into a corner john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2018-08-19 22:40 +0200
    Re: painted into a corner Eike Lantzsch <zp6cge@gmx.net> - 2018-08-19 23:20 +0200
      Re: painted into a corner Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-08-20 00:00 +0200
        Re: painted into a corner Eike Lantzsch <zp6cge@gmx.net> - 2018-08-20 14:30 +0200
          Re: painted into a corner Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-08-20 16:30 +0200
  Re: painted into a corner David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-08-19 23:40 +0200
    Re: painted into a corner Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-08-20 03:10 +0200
      Re: painted into a corner Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-08-20 20:00 +0200
        Re: painted into a corner Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-08-20 20:10 +0200
      Re: painted into a corner Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-08-20 20:00 +0200
        Re: painted into a corner Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-08-20 22:50 +0200
          Re: painted into a corner Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2018-08-21 01:50 +0200
            Re: painted into a corner David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-08-21 02:20 +0200
              Re: painted into a corner Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2018-08-21 03:20 +0200
  Re: painted into a corner David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-08-20 06:20 +0200
  Re: painted into a corner Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2018-08-20 07:10 +0200
  Re: painted into a corner Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-08-20 15:40 +0200
    Re: painted into a corner Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-08-20 16:40 +0200
      Re: painted into a corner Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-08-20 17:20 +0200
        Re: painted into a corner Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-08-20 22:30 +0200
          Re: painted into a corner Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-08-20 23:10 +0200
            Re: painted into a corner Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2018-08-21 02:00 +0200
              Re: painted into a corner Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-08-21 03:20 +0200
                Re: painted into a corner Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2018-08-21 03:30 +0200
          Re: painted into a corner David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-08-21 02:10 +0200
            Re: painted into a corner Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-08-21 03:30 +0200
              Re: painted into a corner Timothy M Butterworth <timothy.m.butterworth@gmail.com> - 2018-08-21 03:40 +0200
              Re: painted into a corner Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-08-21 14:40 +0200
  Re: painted into a corner Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2018-08-20 17:30 +0200
    Re: painted into a corner Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-08-20 22:30 +0200
      Re: painted into a corner Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2018-08-21 03:20 +0200
        Re: painted into a corner David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-08-21 19:40 +0200
          Re: painted into a corner Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2018-08-22 00:40 +0200
  Re: painted into a corner Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2018-08-22 00:40 +0200
    Re: painted into a corner Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-08-22 02:30 +0200
      Re: painted into a corner Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2018-08-22 03:10 +0200
      Re: painted into a corner Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2018-08-22 04:00 +0200
        Re: painted into a corner Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-08-22 04:30 +0200
      Re: painted into a corner Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2018-08-22 04:10 +0200
        Re: painted into a corner Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-08-22 04:30 +0200
          Re: painted into a corner David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-08-22 05:10 +0200
            Re: painted into a corner Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-08-22 05:30 +0200
              Re: painted into a corner David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2018-08-23 03:20 +0200
            Re: painted into a corner Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-08-23 06:10 +0200

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