Re: Lenny won't install on an old Pentium that used to run Etch.
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 12:16:07AM +0000, s. keeling wrote:
> Douglas A. Tutty <dtutty@vianet.ca>:
> > 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".
> >
> > 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 use the following to do backups. It calls afio using bzip
> compression to back up specific filesystems (/home, /etc, /var, ...).
> It does not bother to backup anything that's on a Debian install CD.
>
> Install minimal Debian on new box, drag in your archives, and you're
> back to square one. You do not need to "image the drive" a la
> Windows. The Debian installer is much better at sorting that stuff
> out than you or I.
yea, I do the same thing. However, the OP has the problem that the
lenny installer won't run on the box. If you don't want to reinstall a
previous version and do an immediate update, then the only other option
is a full backup immediatly after the first minimal install+upgrade.
Doug.
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