Breezy

[Daniel Robitaille]

On Tue, 2005-19-04 at 08:13 -0400, Matthew S-H wrote:
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> I wanted to upgrade to Breezy, but I wanted to do it from an exact
> duplicate of my Hoary system.
> When I had upgraded to Hoary, I had backed up my system using "dd", as
> per the advice of another user on this listserv.

where is your duplicate of Hoary going to be?  Another partition?
Another computer?  If it's another partition, a simple "cp -Rp", or a
tar of your Hoary install into one big file, then untarred in its new
partition could work.

After cloning your system  you have to go and change /etc/fstab
and /boot/grub/menu.lst in your new cloned hoary to account for the fact
that its has moved from its original partition.








> There were 2 problems with this idea:
> A)  It only backed it up to a single file.  In theory, this did serve
> as a backup, but it did not let me boot from it.  And I had wanted to
> be able to multi-boot into both Warty and Hoary.
> B)  It didn't work.  After installing Hoary, when I ran into problems,
> I tried "dd"-ing the file back to my hard drive, but it wouldn't work.
> When I tried to boot from it I got errors with init scripts and such.
> 
> Anyway, if anyone has any ideas for alternative backup methods that
> are "tried-and-true", or if anyone could point out my mistake with
> "dd", I'd appreciate it.  Thank you very much :).
> 
> 
> ~Matt
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