Re: [arch-general] Upgrading from Don't Panic Fresh Install

2012-01-17 Thread Guus Snijders
On 15-01-12 22:05, Thomas Bächler wrote: Am 15.01.2012 21:48, schrieb Pierre Schmitz: In short: It's not worth trying. Agreed. I consider this impossible without a lot of time and intimite knowledge of the various problems that will occur. Actually, the only way I can imagine is booting a rece

Re: [arch-general] Upgrading from Don't Panic Fresh Install

2012-01-15 Thread Tobias Powalowski
Archboot needs 320 MB RAM to run. Imho most systems ourdays have this amount of memory. -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tp...@archlinux.org signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [arch-general] Upgrading from Don't Panic Fresh Install

2012-01-15 Thread Thomas Misilo
>I find it extremely impolite to give such a statement before you even TRIED to >use the official image, which is linked on the official download page. Thomas, Sorry for making that statement, I was under the impression that I had tried at least one or two official cd's but they were all appa

Re: [arch-general] Upgrading from Don't Panic Fresh Install

2012-01-15 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 15.01.2012 21:58, schrieb Thomas Misilo: > I was only trying the archboot cd, which wasn't working. Archboot is broken by design in that way. It works, if you have massive amount of memory (I think at least 1GB). From your first mail: > Before you ask WTF, I just want to say that this is the

Re: [arch-general] Upgrading from Don't Panic Fresh Install

2012-01-15 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 15.01.2012 21:48, schrieb Pierre Schmitz: > In short: It's not worth trying. Agreed. I consider this impossible without a lot of time and intimite knowledge of the various problems that will occur. Actually, the only way I can imagine is booting a recent image and upgrading from there. > Bette

Re: [arch-general] Upgrading from Don't Panic Fresh Install

2012-01-15 Thread Pierre Schmitz
Am 15.01.2012 21:58, schrieb Thomas Misilo: > I was only trying the archboot cd, which wasn't working. Using the > newest installer works. Sorry for not trying that first! That's what I > get for not labeling discs and just trying them :) archboot copies the whole image to ram first as everything

Re: [arch-general] Upgrading from Don't Panic Fresh Install

2012-01-15 Thread Thomas Misilo
ailto:arch-general-boun...@archlinux.org] On Behalf Of Leonid Isaev Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 3:53 PM To: arch-general@archlinux.org Subject: Re: [arch-general] Upgrading from Don't Panic Fresh Install On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 21:48:56 +0100 Pierre Schmitz wrote: > Am 15.01.2012 21:35, schr

Re: [arch-general] Upgrading from Don't Panic Fresh Install

2012-01-15 Thread Leonid Isaev
On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 21:48:56 +0100 Pierre Schmitz wrote: > Am 15.01.2012 21:35, schrieb Thomas Misilo: > > Hello, > > > > I was wondering if there are any mirrors out there that still support > > upgrading from Don't Panic? As it seems the directory structure has > > changed a lot. > > > > Bef

Re: [arch-general] Upgrading from Don't Panic Fresh Install

2012-01-15 Thread Pierre Schmitz
Am 15.01.2012 21:35, schrieb Thomas Misilo: > Hello, > > I was wondering if there are any mirrors out there that still support > upgrading from Don't Panic? As it seems the directory structure has > changed a lot. > > Before you ask WTF, I just want to say that this is the only version > of the

Re: [arch-general] Upgrading from Don't Panic Fresh Install

2012-01-15 Thread Karol Blazewicz
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 9:35 PM, Thomas Misilo wrote: > Before you ask WTF, I just want to say that this is the only version of the > ISO > I have found that actually boots the installer and doesn't panic.  (Due to > only have 256MB of ram) Are you saying that newer versions panic if you have j

[arch-general] Upgrading from Don't Panic Fresh Install

2012-01-15 Thread Thomas Misilo
Hello, I was wondering if there are any mirrors out there that still support upgrading from Don't Panic? As it seems the directory structure has changed a lot. Before you ask WTF, I just want to say that this is the only version of the ISO I have found that actually boots the installer and does