bigoperm wrote: > > I need to downgrade from Etch back to Sarge. The only resource I have is > the original Sarge install CD. How can I use this CD to reinstall Sarge > (over Etch) without using any data? > > My intuition tells me all I need to do is skip the partition phase of the > install, and things should be okay; however to do so requires that a root > filesystem must be mounted. Is there a boot option I can pass to the > installer to tell it to mount my already existing system? Thanks in > advance. > >
My advice would be to backup data. And backup to whole of /etc Then run the sarge install. Choose to reformat all partitions apart from the /home partition if that is where your data is. (If you're running DB's or some email servers there may be data in /var). Then carefully re-adding your users accounts -(using the uid switch to match the /home directory if needed) should get you back to a sarge system. Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
