Re: Etch back to Sarge

2007-05-02 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 11:39:37 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 09:28:30PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 20:32:06 +0200, bigoperm wrote: > > > > > > Doug, > > > I figured I'd get thie question :-) After my upgrade to Etch, my network > > >

Re: Etch back to Sarge

2007-05-02 Thread Matthew K Poer
On Wednesday 02 May 2007 14:39, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 09:28:30PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 20:32:06 +0200, bigoperm wrote: > > > Doug, > > > I figured I'd get thie question :-) After my upgrade to Etch, my > > > network card no longer

Re: Etch back to Sarge

2007-05-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 09:28:30PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 20:32:06 +0200, bigoperm wrote: > > > > Doug, > > I figured I'd get thie question :-) After my upgrade to Etch, my network > > card no longer works (it's a Xircom PCMCIA card (cardbus)). I've searched > > th

Re: Etch back to Sarge

2007-05-02 Thread kevin bailey
bigoperm wrote: > > Kevin, > Thanks for the advice - this is what I was thinking, actually. I have full > backups of /etc, /var, and /home. Is it enough to re-install Sarge > (formatting all of the disks), and copying my backups back over? Should > that just work? Thanks > > jerome > > Just w

Re: Etch back to Sarge

2007-05-01 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 08:32:06PM +0200, bigoperm wrote: > I figured I'd get thie question :-) After my upgrade to Etch, my network > card no longer works (it's a Xircom PCMCIA card (cardbus)). I've searched > the message boards for solutions, but can't find anything that solves my > problem. U

Re: Etch back to Sarge

2007-05-01 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 20:32:06 +0200, bigoperm wrote: > > Doug, > I figured I'd get thie question :-) After my upgrade to Etch, my network > card no longer works (it's a Xircom PCMCIA card (cardbus)). I've searched > the message boards for solutions, but can't find anything that solves my > pr

Re: Etch back to Sarge

2007-05-01 Thread bigoperm
Kevin, Thanks for the advice - this is what I was thinking, actually. I have full backups of /etc, /var, and /home. Is it enough to re-install Sarge (formatting all of the disks), and copying my backups back over? Should that just work? Thanks jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Etch back to Sarge

2007-05-01 Thread bigoperm
Doug, I figured I'd get thie question :-) After my upgrade to Etch, my network card no longer works (it's a Xircom PCMCIA card (cardbus)). I've searched the message boards for solutions, but can't find anything that solves my problem. Unfortunately, I don't have time to figure out what's wrong

Re: Etch back to Sarge

2007-05-01 Thread kevin bailey
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 phas

Re: Etch back to Sarge

2007-05-01 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2007/5/1, bigoperm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: 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? I did something very close to this using a local repository f

Re: Etch back to Sarge

2007-04-30 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 01:41:48AM +0200, 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 a

Re: Etch back to Sarge

2007-04-30 Thread Alan Ianson
On Monday 30 April 2007 16:41, 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? There is no (official) downgrade path, only upgra

Etch back to Sarge

2007-04-30 Thread bigoperm
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