Anno domini 2023 Sat, 14 Oct 01:10:14 -0700 William Morder via tde-users scripsit: > > On Saturday 14 October 2023 00:25:30 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp via tde-users wrote: > > Hi Bill! > > > > Did you succeed with moving to excalibur? > > Not yet. As stated in a previous email, I am waiting to test out these > upgrades to daedalus, using non-free firmware according to your > recommendations. > > If I were to upgrade to excalibur, then I can go about it either of two ways: > 1) reinstall my OS using a chimaera image, but doing a minimal installation; > then upgrading to daedalus, then upgrading to excalibur. This may or may not > work, of course, but I may get irritated enough by these weird glitches that > I decide that it must be tried. > > Or, 2) to stick with my current daedalus installation (with all the preferred > packages already installed); only I have upgraded, and have added those > packages that you recommended. > > Before I go changing things in what is basically still a stable system > (doesn't crash, etc.), I want to give this a try. It may be, after a few > reboots, that I discover that the problem all along was that I needed those > packages. > > If this still doesn't help, then I will give excalibur a try. But I don't like > taking the scenic route just to install that release (i.e., chimaera > > daedalus > upgrading by changing my sources.list). That, to me seems just a > bit too indirect, and will probably make for a few surprises along the way. No worries, it'll be fine, belive me ... :] Kernel 6.5 has better support for ryzen CPU, so things won't get worse (hopefully). As your ssd is in most parts a vaste desert now you can just copy your system to a spare folder and try the upgrade. If it does not work, just move folders around and be fine: # mkdir /old-root # mount --bind / /mnt # rsync -av /mnt/ /old-root # umount /mnt # rsync -av /boot/ /old-boot ... then do the upgrade. > [...] > There am I, the intrepid adventurer, boldly going where nobody has gone > before ... Don't count on that. See those almost vanished traces in the mud? These are my footprints ... > > Bill > > ____________________________________________________ > tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ... ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
