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Re: Lenny won't install on an old Pentium that used to run Etch.



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Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>> How about doing an upgrade instead?
>> Still, I'd like to know why the Etch installer is successful and the
>> Lenny installer isn't. Should I still be using this machine "down the
>> road" (and I'd like to keep it going as long as the hardware holds up),
>> incremental upgrades from Etch to Lenny to the next version...and so
>> on...are going to get a bit tedious.
> 
> FWIW, I use `testing' specifically because I find such upgrades
> horrendous: I much prefer spending 5 minutes every week "upgrading" my
> machine, than a whole day (if not more) every 2 years.

OOps. For me it just took about half an hour. 30 minutes / 100 weeks is
too little to be concerned for me -- and certainly less than 5
minutes/week  ;-)

Johannes
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