On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:00:58AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Friday 13 March 2009 08:43:07 Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > As for rolling upgrades, great but what about when e.g. a hard > drive > > fails. > > It's called a "backup".
Ha, Ha. Sure, if you want to do a back-up of the whole installed she-bang (rather than just the data and the required debs). I suppose that if you install the last installable version (minimal only, no tasks), then upgrade (incrementally?) to the current stable, then do a backup of the whole thing, that would work, assuming that for a bare-metal restore, you could go back to the last installable version and do a restore. Debian isn't good at this but it may work. Then, after the initial install, you install all the debs, then backup the apt cache. For the bare-metal restore, you'd dump it back into the apt cache. Its still a lot more work than if the installer actually worked for a piece of hardware that it says it does. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
