Re: Upgrade from Sarge to Etch Satisfactorily Completed
> On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 03:37:18PM -0400, alan@patriot.net wrote:
>>
>> > 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 don't doubt that, that's why I suggested the netinstall image, because
> it can go on a CD and is small enough not to take too long.
Hi, Andrei, I guess you know something I don't know(not that
that's a surprise<g>) Why would I take my netinstall file
(167 Mb) and put it on a CD unless the CD was _bootable_?
The CD would have to be made bootable, and would have I guess
to have an initrd-img on it as well.
When I burn a CD, I use mkisofs and cdrecord. I don't know
any other way. Maybe you, or some other expert, should write
a nice mini-HOWTO about how to do all this.
>> that burning those to a CD which was then also to be bootable was
>> way beyond my meager capabilities.
>
> But how did you burn the DVDs?
<LOL> I didn't. "I bought 'em at a shop". At CheapBytes,
a nice on-line store for Linux and BSD ware.
Best wishes,
Alan
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