Upgrading to 10alpha

[John Summerfield]

Jerry Amundson wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 7:38 PM, John Summerfield
> <debian at herakles.homelinux.org> wrote:
>> What it wants is to download 1.7 Gbytes of stuff. I don't have that much
>> free space[1], but mounting a USB drive is possible.
> 
> You've left out quite a few details if a 1.7 GB problem requires a 320
> GB solution.
> 

See below, I need to buy a new drive and clone and retire the existing 
drive. There's no space for a new drive.

>> What mount point should I use, and what do I need to copy to the drive
>> before mounting it there?
> 
> /var/cache/yum
> Nothing needs to be copied, unless you wanted to preserve what has
> already been downloaded, but "yum clean all" took care of that...

Thanks.


>> [1] To solve that properly requires acquiring a drive larger then 320 Gbytes
>> and cloning the existing drive - adding a drive isn't possible. F10 has to
>> suit me better than F9 does, or I'm more likely to give the space to
>> Windows.
> 
> I won't even take *that* bait... :-)

:-)
xen on F9 is basically useless (in my hands).
KVM is better, but prone to hanging guests.
VirtualPC and VirtualServer work.

I have the system principally for running virtual machines. (CentOS5 is 
pretty unsatisfactory, for any purpose except maybe a headless server) 
on the machine in question.





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Cheers
John

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