downgrade

Roger Neth Jr baypos at gmail.com
Tue May 22 02:10:55 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 19:17 -0600, drew einhorn wrote:
> Doing a downgrade will take you way off the beaten path.
> You will be breaking a new trail.
> 
> I'd suggest getting a new hard drive doing a fresh install of
> 6.10 then copying what you need from your 7.04 old drive(s)
> onto you new 6.10 system.
> 
> If that's not an option make sure you make a backup of
> of /home  /etc  and maybe even  /var depending on what
> you have going.
> 
> I can't believe how cheap storage is getting.  Was just at
> Costco and saw 1 Terabyte ( 2 - 500 GB drives ) in a box
> with a 10/100/1000 network interface you can either
> run it as 1 TB or a mirrored 500 GB.  Don't know what
> network protocols it supports.  It's marketed as plug and
> play for Windows users who wouldn't know the difference
> between NFS, SMB, and a hole in the ground.  All for
> $344.95 USD.
> 
> Anyway make sure you have a copy of what you need to
> preserve before you start.
> 
> On 5/21/07, debiani386 <debiani386 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > norman wrote:
> > > Could someone please explain the procedure to change from 7.04 to 6.10
> > > without losing any of my files etc. Up to now I have only upgraded but,
> > > now that my scanner does not work, I shall have to go down a grade.
> > >
> > > Norman
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Why do you want to go back to 6.10? 7.04 is way much better then 6.10 imho
> >
> > besides, i noticed more performance glitches in 6.10 then i did in 7.04,
> > as in the browser would sometimes lock up or the x server would need
> > some restarting. 7.04 is different
> >
> > --cj
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> 
> -- 
> Drew Einhorn
> 

I bought a 500GB Seagate internal ide hdd for $145.00, free shipping
from new egg for a client's security camera system.

Roger

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