On Friday 02 February 2007 22:38, Nigel Henry wrote:
I have 3 Debian installs apart from Kubuntu. Each one was originally
installed from Woody 3.0r2 cdroms. All 3 were upgraded to Sarge which was
on testing at the time (there were a few problems). When Sarge went stable
I kept 2 of the
Nigel Henry wrote:
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One Sarge install I'm about to change from
Sarge to Etch, which is the one I'm attempting to upgrade to Etch. This will
be fun.
I've copied /etc/cache/apt/archives from etch to the sarge install that I'm
going to upgrade, so as to to save a bit of DL time, as I'm on
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 10:38:43PM +0100, Nigel Henry wrote:
I have 3 Debian installs apart from Kubuntu. Each one was originally
installed
from Woody 3.0r2 cdroms. All 3 were upgraded to Sarge which was on testing at
the time (there were a few problems). When Sarge went stable I kept 2 of
On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 07:43:31AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Backup is essential. I've tried to do an upgrade from sarge to etch
several times over the past year, and have yet to do one that resulted
in a working system. I found a new install works better, but even there
I have
Just upgraded mine. I've been fearing that upgrade as the
report for the upgrade
showed hundreds of packages to be removed. What I did was copy
the current
installation to another disk, made it bootable so I have the
original disk intact.
Ran the update and dist-upgrade many times,
On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 09:22:04AM -0800, tony mollica wrote:
Just upgraded mine. I've been fearing that upgrade as the
report for the upgrade
showed hundreds of packages to be removed. What I did was copy
the current
installation to another disk, made it bootable so I have the
original
I have 3 Debian installs apart from Kubuntu. Each one was originally installed
from Woody 3.0r2 cdroms. All 3 were upgraded to Sarge which was on testing at
the time (there were a few problems). When Sarge went stable I kept 2 of the
installs on stable, and the 3rd I left on testing, which is
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 10:38:43PM +0100, Nigel Henry wrote:
I'd love to have a backup of the Sarge install, but have never been quite
sure how to take it . I've read a bit about rdiff, but have never tried it.
Please have a backup of _your_ data (e.g. /home). Tar it. Then:
burn
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