On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 10:54:14AM -0400, alan@patriot.net wrote: > Yesterday was a horrendous day! My goal was to upgrade my > ancient sarge distribution to etch, using my three etch > DVDs. It is a complicated problem because my DVD Reader/player > is external, connected through USB, and my BIOS won't allow > booting from it. > > Because of foolish mistakes of mine(don't ask!) it turned out I > had to trash my / and /boot partitions, and completely reinstall > sarge, from my ancient and well-used pile of 12 sarge CDs. This > took a while<ggrrr>. Wouldn't it have been easier to download the netinstall or businesscard image, boot from it, make a minimal install and then continue with the DVDs (instead of installing sarge and upgrading to etch)? Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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