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Cheap hard disks (was: Re: updating glibc rpms)
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- Subject: Cheap hard disks (was: Re: updating glibc rpms)
- From: Omer Zak <omerz(at-nospam)actcom.co.il>
- Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 19:14:08 +0300 (EET DST)
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Another approach:
Nowadays, fat hard disks are dirt cheap.
1. Buy another hard disk.
2. Swap it into your PC
3. Install a modern Linux distribution on it, with the most up-to-date
stable kernel, glibc and all the other goodies.
4. Normally, it is possible to connect more than one hard disk to PC.
Connect your original hard disk and mount its partitions.
5. Apply (wherever relevant) your custom configuration files to
applications, whose configuration was modified.
6. Copy over any of your own files, which you need from the old hard
disk.
7. Reformat your old hard disk, install modern Linux on it and give it as
a present to your nephew (or consult the footnote below).
The most time consuming step would be step (5) above. It is a judgement
call whether it's more difficult than upgrading glibc or not.
On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Oded Arbel wrote:
> I myself updated glibcs onseveral occasions, and my conclusion is that the
> safest route is to resolve all the depndency problems one by one, either by
> installing new binary RPMs built against the new glibc and/or uninstalling
> the old RPMs, re-building them from source against the new RPMs and
> re-installing them.
>
> I know it seems like a really long and tedious process (and it is, trust me
> on that :-) but its the only sure-fire way I know to do it, and I tried all
> kinds.
--- Omer
There is no IGLU Cabal. However, there is a dusty warehouse somewhere in
the distant reaches of the Negev, housing millions upon millions of old
disk drives having Linux installations with old kernels and obsolete glibc
versions.
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