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



On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:00:58AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> On Friday 13 March 2009 08:43:07 Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > As for rolling upgrades, great but what about when e.g. a hard 
> drive
> > fails.
> 
> It's called a "backup".

Ha, Ha.

Sure, if you want to do a back-up of the whole installed she-bang
(rather than just the data and the required debs).

I suppose that if you install the last installable version (minimal
only, no tasks), then upgrade (incrementally?) to the current stable,
then do a backup of the whole thing, that would work, assuming that for
a bare-metal restore, you could go back to the last installable version
and do a restore.  Debian isn't good at this but it may work.

Then, after the initial install, you install all the debs, then backup
the apt cache.  For the bare-metal restore, you'd dump it back into the
apt cache.

Its still a lot more work than if the installer actually worked for a
piece of hardware that it says it does.

Doug.


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