Andrew Reilly wrote: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 02:51:02PM +0200, Mel Flynn wrote: >> On Wednesday 16 September 2009 08:56:25 Mark Linimon wrote: >>> You've gotten some good advice about the steps necessary, but not the >>> advice that you'll spend a lot less time if you do a new install from >>> scratch. >> Except OP mentions install from CD is broken for his system and I doubt 4.x >> sysinstall will do 7.x new ftp install satisfactory. > > That's not going to leave him in a very comfortable place when > he discovers that his root partition is too small for the > 7-stable root install, part-way through the install... > > For this kind of upgrade, you just have to have a fallback > strategy, because the chances of something not going quite right > are high. Fixing the CD install issues has to be the first port > of call. (I don't expect that any machine that has 4.9 on it > will be able to boot from USB: my old boxes can't.) There are also the issues of CPU horesepower and quantity of RAM that are potential problems on hardware that is at minimum 6 years old. Everything about this project shouts DANGER WILL ROBINSON!!! to me. Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protectionReceived on Wed Sep 16 2009 - 21:31:22 UTC
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