Re: Upgrade from Sarge to Etch Satisfactorily Completed
On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:18:33 -0400 (EDT)
alan@patriot.net wrote:
> > 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.
No, you don't. The netinst image is self-containing, so just burn it
on a CD, the computer will boot from it, there are no more actions
neccessary.
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Nyizsa.
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