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Morning y'all.
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@lstench Morning. I have a working debian. Huzzah!
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@vanden hey there!!, What did you do to fix it?
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@lstench Tried to boot from a wheezy usb; new and different grub error. On reboot, my BIOS grew a splash screen & GRUB worked. Deep voodoo.
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@vanden wheezy it is then!! So all is working well then?
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@lstench Well, it was the squeeze install that GRUB found after failed wheezy usb boot. As said, voodoo. But I did move repos to testing.
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I usually do a very basic stable install then upgrade to testing. Wheezy has been pretty pain free for me, and I've been on it for a while.
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@vanden Actually I prefer to run testing., So how many install are on there?
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@gomerx That's what I did. So far so good. I'm installing a fsck-load of wheezy packages & approaching t/ moment of reboot truth. Toes x-ed.
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@lstench Just the one. I couldn't boot from the USB (some GRUB error) but afterwards squeeze install & USBs booted fine. Now on testing :-)
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@vanden okay I misunderstood thought you installed both squeeze and wheezy, you didn't you used the wheezy usb to recover
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@lstench Likely my bad; groggy after long struggle. Plus, odd and hard to 140 characterize.
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@vanden no worries, glad you are up and running. Are you enjoying it?
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@lstench Not yet; always takes me a few days to tweak a new install and I don't find that fun. Expect I shall like; always ran deb-derived.
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@lstench I do anticipate liking the freshness of (post-freeze) testing. Happy to have enough boxen so I now can risk breakage. :-)
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The freeze period can be a bit chaotic, but Debian chaos is like stability for other distros.
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@vanden true I am still tweaking mine, I like the fact that once I am done I am done. KWIM. Debian is a workhorse.
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@vanden Ah well there is always unstable that is starting to look somewhat stable these days
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