recreating lenny
I think I need to recreate a lenny system, and could use some advice about how
to do it. The system was i386, while the one I have now is amd64 (wheezy,
though I have access to an amd65 running lenny).
I don't think the current debootstap can do lenny, and using the lenny
installer or (if I could get it) lenny debootsrap have hardwired assumptions
about where to look for files. I don't know if there is a way to repoint them
at the archive.
There are also chroots, VM's, and multiarch, but I can't see clearly how to
get those started.
Background: My 32 bit lenny system died along with the primary hard disk. I
have been able to restore the files from backup, but it seems in some cases
(e.g., databases) migration requires the tools of the original system (e.g.,
to convert to an export format).
The backups were made from snapshots with the databases shut down; perhaps I
should have made the export dumps as part of that process.
Thanks for any help.
Ross Boylan
P.S. The backups are not complete disk images; e.g. they don't include /usr.
So I can't simply recreate the disks and start a chroot or VM.
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