Re: The Final Frontier. Upgrading Sarge to Etch

On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 10:38:43PM +0100, Nigel Henry wrote:
I have 3 Debian installs apart from Kubuntu. Each one was originally installed
from Woody 3.0r2 cdroms. All 3 were upgraded to Sarge which was on testing at
the time (there were a few problems). When Sarge went stable I kept 2 of the
installs on stable, and the 3rd I left on testing, which is my current Etch
install. I've now changed /etc/apt/sources for Etch,to Etch, rather than
testing, as Etch is soon to become stable, and the 2 Sarge installs I'd
changed from stable to Sarge. One Sarge install I'm about to change from
Sarge to Etch, which is the one I'm attempting to upgrade to Etch. This will
be fun.

I've copied /etc/cache/apt/archives from etch to the sarge install that I'm
going to upgrade, so as to to save a bit of DL time, as I'm on dialup.

I'd love to have a backup of the Sarge install, but have never been quite
sure how to take it . I've read a bit about rdiff, but have never tried it.

Backup is essential. I've tried to do an upgrade from sarge to etch
several times over the past year, and have yet to do one that resulted
in a working system. I found a new install works better, but even there
I have problems.

Mind you, my eldest son says my computer is cursed. He's never had any
such problems on *his* wonderful box.

-- hendrik


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