Re: Upgrade and repartition advice
Ken Januski wrote:
Thanks for your sound suggestions. Unfortunately I don't currently
have a CD burner so I knew that I wasn't going to get far with that
strategy. Eventually I used Knoppix parted to set the Windows
partition as ext3fs and just installed Sarge there. So now I have that
and older version of Debian running on separate partitons. It' s not
really what I want but it does give me time to experiment with Sarge
and eventually figure how to merge them in some way.
If you want to upgrade your old Debian to Sarge and use the extra space
by removing Windows, you could do this:
1. Boot into old Debian as root.
2. Add the Sarge CDs to the Apt sources using eg apt-cdrom.
3. Upgrade to Sarge using eg apt-get dist-upgrade.
4. Move parts of your filesystem to other empty partitions. Do this by
mounting a partition, copying a branch of the filesystem to it and
modifying /etc/fstab. Eg you could move the contents of /home from the /
partition to the root of /dev/hdan. Rename /home to /home.old. Remount
/dev/hdan as /home. If all works, you can delete /home.old.
If you are able to replace your old Windows partition with two ext3
partitions (eg using cfdisk), you could move both /home and /usr (or
some other branch of the filesystem) to new partitions.
If you use cfdisk to delete your old Windows partition and create new
partitions, you must format the new partitions using mke2fs.
Have a look at the reference manual
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/reference.en.html before you
try any of this.
Chris.
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