On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 09:26:46AM -0700, Jaime Herazo B. wrote: > Lately i got to help a friend that has been playing around with linux > for a while. One of his machines has been mostly neglected on the > upgrading (the well-tuned firewall made him complacent i guess), and > is far behind. Initially he installed it from a Mepis CD, back when it > was still based off pure debian (it's ubuntu-oriented these days), [snip description of a multiple-distro-linux-in-one-filesystem-mess.
> Do you guys think it's worth to do a dist-upgrade to stable at this > point? i'm inclined to just format it and be done with that mess, but > he doesn't want to go that route since he'd have to reconfigure it all > (i'd personally be willing to pay that price to be able to have the > comfort of trusting the contents of the machine). Do you think it'd be > good to give it a shot anyway? or would it just be a complicated way > of delaying the unavoidable? Things have changed so much that he'll have to reconfigure things anyway. Especially difficult things like email (with exim4). Copy /etc plus anything of his own (e.g. /home, /usr/local, /var/local, /opt (not that Woody had it). Then do a bare-metal install. But wait. What hardware is this box? The box I had on which I installed Potato for the first time doesn't have enough memory to run Etch's installer. So we need to know what hardware (CPU, Memory, drive space) to plot a safe upgrade path. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
