Hello Douglas, Am 2007-03-20 14:00:22, schrieb Douglas Allan Tutty: > I have a 486 with 32 MB ram, ISA bus NIC, currently running Sarge. Now > that Etch RC2 is out I'm starting to plan for the future of this box. > The Etch install manual says that it needs 64 MB ram. I know that Sarge > will continue to be supported for a while but I may as well start > planning. > > I know: someone will give me the proverbial quarter and tell me to get a > real computer :) > > I never could run Sarge's installer re memory so went with Woody and > upgraded. I can try that with Etch but want to have a fall-back > position in case the attempt hoses. I'm on very slow dialup so getting > back to where its at now would take a few weeks. Since Sarge's aptitude > takes a few minutes to load (due to the size of the packages file), I > fear that Etch will take proportionally longer and run out of memory.
Why not:
1) catch the "Packages.gz" of Etch
2) then make a list of the installed Sarge Packages
3) create a list of the DEPENDENCIES for all the installed Sarge
packages (dependencies have changed...)
4) download the list using "wget"
5) use "dpkg-scanpackages" to create a NEW Packages.gz
6) setup your "/etc/apt/sources.list" to use this Repository ONLY.
7) go into "/var/lib/dpkg/" and delete the files "available" and
"available-old"
and now run
8) apt-get update
9) apt-get dist-upgrade
without any hassles...
After the seccessfull update you can change the
"/etc/apt/sources.list" back to an official Etch mirror.
Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
Michelle Konzack
Systemadministrator
Tamay Dogan Network
Debian GNU/Linux Consultant
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