On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 08:55:41PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 02:34:35PM -0500, Alan McConnell wrote:
> > I want to upgrade from sarge to etch, and have purchased a 3 DVD
> > Debian etch set. However my DVD player/reader is external, attached
> > to a usb port, and I can't boot from that.
I've played with the BIOS settings, and this remains true. I
can boot from the (one) hard drive, or from CD.
> Some ideas:
>
> 1. Have you read the installation manual? It provides all the
> different boot and install options for your arch (i386?).
Standard i386. Been running Sarge for several years.
> 2. What will your box boot?
>
> -CD? then download the netinst.iso file, burn that, and
> use the DVD as a local repository.
I've spent most of the day wrestling with how exactly to do this.
As far as I can tell, it involves a _very_ fancy use of
mkisofs. I have pored over the Debian documentation, but I may
have missed directions about how to do this.
> 3. If this is just an upgrade from Sarge to Etch, just use
> apt-cdrom to add the DVD as a repository, then do an apt-update.
> There are a few issues with this path: read the release notes
> first and have a backup in case something goes wrong.
I haven't done anything with this. If this doesn't
involve a re-install, that would be great.
I have the DVDs, and I also have over 20 gig of free disk space,
so All Things should be possible<g>.
Any further help, with either the CD burning or the update-upgrade
path, would be greatly appreciated.
Best wishes,
Alan
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