Breezy

[Matthew S-H]

Well, I need more than a "could work".  Is this a definitive solution, 
or is there a chance it could mess things up again (which I really 
don't want to risk).

~Matt



On Apr 20, 2005, at 12:30 AM, Daniel Robitaille wrote:

> 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.
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>> 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 :).
>>
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>> ~Matt
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