On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 10:51:44PM EST, Greg Madden wrote: > On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 20:22:47 -0500 > cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I need to upgrade my current sarge to something more current. > > > > Is this the recommended procedure -- the one less likely to provide > > major headaches: > > > > 1. Install sarge on a new partition > > 2. Wait till etch become stable. > > 3. Do a blind upgrade. > > 4. Customize.
[...] > > Note: > > > > This is a laptop with a pcmcia NIC. Back in April, I spent over two > > months trying to install etch but I was never able to finish the > > install. The etch installer just did not recognize the NIC .. I was > > never able to bring up a network connection .. as a result I ended up > > with an etch install that I could not finalize. Since the stable etch > > installer probably won't work any better with this laptop .. and since > > the sarge installer did work .. I was thinking the above might be the > > best solution. > > I don't know if there is a recommended procedure, but if there was one > my guess would be to use a net-install cd and install from a mirror. > Once installed you should not have to re-install... ever. An additional reason is that this was originally a chown install that I did to evaluate debian -- was a discontented Red Hat user at the time.. Turned out to be so much to my liking that it quickly became my main environment. But as it was meant to be a trial install, I only gave it a 2.5G partition .. which has become a problem. So I would have to use one of those drive partitioning tools to move things around .. I think I'd rather do a clean install and keep the current one as a fallback if/when things go wrong. Especially since due to the aborted install of etch all the grub-related stuff currently lives in that aborted install's "/" partition.. :-( The minimum net-install of sarge + upgrade to etch is precisely what I had in mind. What bothers me is that I have a feeling the NIC/pcmcia issue is more linked to major changes regarding pcmcia handling in 2.6 kernels than the debian installer .. So I wouldn't be surprised if the etch upgrade caused problems even if the sarge net-install goes smoothly. > > I have been using Etch since 00.org hit v. 2.0, a year or so, while > updating when reading the users list indicated it was safe, for my > skill level to upgrade. > > The laptop pcmcia card issue is a trial an error issue, :-) .. gave up after two months of "trials" .. rather "trying" .. > if Etch doesn't support it, use sarge and do a minimal install, change > your sources list to Etch and do a full install. Use 'dpkg > get-selections & 'dpkg set-selections to get the packages installed > the same as the old install. man dpkg. .. That's probably not even going to be necessary since I am quite happy with xterm, gnu/screen, mutt, vim, and elinks. And since I ended up installing all of these from source .. But thanks for the tip .. There may be daemon stuff that I may have customized after my initial sarge install. Thanks cga -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
