Re: Upgrade from Sarge to Etch Satisfactorily Completed
> On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 10:54:14AM -0400, alan@patriot.net wrote:
>>
>> 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)?
Hi, Andrei, thanks for your suggestion. Unfortunately my (quite
old) computer can boot _only_ from hard drive or CD, not from
any other apparatus. I have done a _lot_ of checking on the
BIOS, trust me!
I explored the possibility of putting a netinstall and boot.img on
a CD, while making the CD bootable. Although I had grabbed a
netinstall.iso and a boot.img, my research led me to the conviction
that burning those to a CD which was then also to be bootable was
way beyond my meager capabilities.
> If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
> (Albert Einstein)
Great .sig!
Best wishes,
Alan
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