Re: The Final Frontier. Upgrading Sarge to Etch

2007-02-04 Thread Nigel Henry
On Friday 02 February 2007 22:38, 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 inst

Re: The Final Frontier. Upgrading Sarge to Etch

2007-02-03 Thread hendrik
On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 09:22:04AM -0800, tony mollica wrote: > Just upgraded mine. I've been fearing that upgrade as the > report for the upgrade > showed hundreds of packages to be removed. What I did was copy > the current > installation to another disk, made it bootable so I have the > ori

Re: The Final Frontier. Upgrading Sarge to Etch

2007-02-03 Thread tony mollica
Just upgraded mine. I've been fearing that upgrade as the report for the upgrade showed hundreds of packages to be removed. What I did was copy the current installation to another disk, made it bootable so I have the original disk intact. Ran the update and dist-upgrade many times, including

Re: The Final Frontier. Upgrading Sarge to Etch

2007-02-03 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 07:43:31AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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 p

Re: The Final Frontier. Upgrading Sarge to Etch

2007-02-03 Thread hendrik
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

Re: The Final Frontier. Upgrading Sarge to Etch

2007-02-03 Thread Chris Lale
Nigel Henry wrote: [...] 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 d

Re: The Final Frontier. Upgrading Sarge to Etch

2007-02-02 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 10:38:43PM +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > 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. Please have a backup of _your_ data (e.g. /home). Tar it. Then: burn