NN_il_Confusionario wrote:
Up until I installed Etch, that was the case for me. One continuous upgrade since Bo, or Hamm, through to Sarge. Sometimes the Hard Drive moved to another system, or a new MB was put in, or the system was cloned to another HD and then upgraded, but it never got a reinstall.On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 07:58:46PM +0300, Shachar Or wrote:I wonder if there's a system somewhere that was never re-installed, only upgraded from one of the earliest versions...yesbut not on the disk where debian 1.1 was installed from floppy disks, and not on the same cpu/motherboard. However the floppy drive should be the same, I seem to recall. Clearly I do not count as reinstall the copy of an existing installation.
No part of my current desktop was actually in the computer that got my original Debian install, though there may be bits of that system still around in a box, somewhere.
That was one of the primary reasons that I did a fresh install when I switched to Etch. Now Aptitude (in place of Apt) helps keep the cruft down.It would be interesting to see what ruins can be found amongst the files.
P.S. I did the Etch install in a chroot in free space on the disk. I should still have the Sarge install in currently unused partitions on my disk.
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