I am going to bed at 11:00 Eastern If you hit a error, stop and ask. Much less frustration that way. Steve N4IRS

1: Install Linux Debian 9 X86 64 Minimal Latest V2 2: apt update 3: apt upgrade 4: reboot 5: edit /etc/apt/sources.list Change all occurrences of stretch to buster cd

It's worth a try. What's getting frustrating is I have an Allstar Node set up with autopatch/reverse patch, and several other advanced features, and something as simple as this is giving me fits.

As am I. OK, I can tell you how to upgrade their Debian 9 to Buster.

Virmach.

What provider are you using?

Best I can tell. It's not there anymore though as I wiped the OS again trying to find one that will work. I added the repos that someone else mentioned, and it didn't throw as many errors, but it

Let me see if I understand. It installed but dvs did not run?

I had to go back to Ubuntu as Buster wasn't one of my choices (newest available to me was Debian 8 and it threw the same errors as earlier). The DVS command would not run after installation. As I

What OS did you choose? What error are you getting.

I give up. This is not an easier way of doing it. I don't want to run out of allowed OS reinstalls. Can someone please point me toward the complete documentation on how to do this the hard way? The

Ok, thanks, I'll give this a try, else I'll do a clean install. -- Dave WB6DTB

I finished already after the repo correction

OK, I suggest you start with the stock netinstall ISO from Debian.<https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/debian-10.8.0-amd64-netinst.iso>

You are right, mine was buster iso w/asl script

This is from a install using the ASL amd64 ISO: Linux repeater 4.9.0-14-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.246-2 (2020-12-17) x86_64 The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux

The amd64 asl ISO is stretch, not buster.

For anyone else's benefit, I was missing source repo list /etc/apt/sources.list This is what it should read: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster main contrib non-free

<https://packages.debian.org/buster/net-tools>

So, on a new attempt, After : ./buster E: Package 'net-tools' has no installation candidate