Re: [debian-knoppix] Updating a hard drive install
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michael 'topdog' thompson wrote:
> hi jason,
>
> from experience the following Always works:
> one could spend a life time deciding which method is best; and still be
> incorrect. why not just make an option page and let the user decide.
that
> way, your solution is always correct.
>
> if your interested other options.
sure
> my personnel favorite is:
> 1. to install all the packages in their own directories; (i'm told i
could
> be losing on performance here; but with a
2GHz-CPU/1Meg-RAM/100GB-Harddrive,
> i just don't see it happening, yet.).
What do you mean by this? I thought .deb's would go in the directories
mentioned in the installation files (control files or whatever)?
> 2. i prefer to re-download the package in source form, then compile it on
> my machine.
> for some odd reason, i just get a little more out of my machine with less
> heartburn. i don't know why.
This is probably not an option for most of the users that we hand
Knoppix CDs out to.
>
> regards,
> michael
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jason A. Pattie" <pattieja@pcxperience.com>
> To: <debian-knoppix@linuxtag.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 11:37 AM
> Subject: [debian-knoppix] Updating a hard drive install
>
>
>
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>>Hello,
>>
>>Just wanted to find out what everybody thought about ways to upgrade a
>>Knoppix installation to the latest version after an installation has
>>been performed using the knx-hdinstall script.
>>
>>Some of the ideas that were thought up include:
>>(Knoppix upgrade:)
>>1) wipe everything ignoring any current data, resetup everything
>>2) simply dump all new data over current data (potentially overwriting
>>current config files)
>>3) Knoppix upgrade CD of deb packages
>>4) use upgrade repository or CD of upgrade repository packages
>>5) copy all important data to temporary location, blow away, put
>>important data back (if necessary)
>>6) apt-get remove all packages, dump new CD in place
>>
>>Keep in mind that this was thought up for the situation where most of
>>the people using Knoppix do not have high speed Internet access to be
>>able to just point their apt sources at the current Knoppix repository
>>and upgrade that way.
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Jason A. Pattie
pattieja@xperienceinc.com
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