Re: [debian-knoppix] Updating a hard drive install
Hallo Jason,
I have been working on this problem some time ago and I have written a script that works over the network, still.
It needs 2 computers, one running a new KNOPPIX from CD, one an old hd-installed knoppix. The CD-KNOPPIX computer with 720 MB free diskspace becomes a ftp-server with dpkg-repack. The old Knoppix points its apt/sources.list to the CD-KNOPPIX-ftp server and performs an apt-get update/upgrade.
But the script still runs into trouble when the old and new kernel versions differ:-((. I have to handle a kernel update separatly, probably with tar.
I have recently made some modifications to my script, but I have not tested it yet, so I don't want to publish it, because it will ruin your existing installation:-((
The script must be extended to work without ftp-server, too.
I would like to know, if it might be useful for your problem, and, maybe someones could provide some useful tips. On question is, can a kernel update be performed with apt-get? Another concerns the "GLIB-problem". I noticed that KNOPPIX and DEBIAN uses different libs, that can not be mixed. Is there an URL explaining the problem?
Have a nice day:-))
Achim
> 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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