Upgrade oddities

Solved a mysterious networking problem at work this morning by replacing a copy of Debian Etch that had been upgraded from Sarge, with a clean install. (Well, actually a copy, via tar, of a clean install.) Nothing I can really put my finger on, but it seems as though there are still some bugs in the Sarge-to-Etch upgrade. Not surprising; Etch hasn't been released yet. But it leads me to suspect even more strongly that my fileserver crash problems here at home may be the same kind of thing. Possibbly some kind of hardware-detection thing.

The new disk will give me the excuse; now I just need the time. There may be some time in the late afternoon Thursday and Friday depending on how long cleanup and setup for next week's shindig take; between work and Consonance, next week is totally shot.