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On Tuesday 10 March 2009 10:51:15 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > Is it possible to upgrade an existing 2005 S1 install to 2008.0? I gave |
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> > it a quick try and ran into multiple issues. Before I expend hrs trying |
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> > to make it work, does anyone know if it's an exercise in futility or not? |
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> > Thx |
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> You have not given sufficient information for even a half-way decent |
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> answer. So I will thumb suck: |
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> Is this an install from 2005 that has not been updated since? If so, forget |
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> it, reinstall. |
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> Is this an install from 2205 that has been updated regularly? If so, what's |
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> the problem? |
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> Is this some arb install from some arb point in time that is running a 2005 |
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> profile? If so, change the profile and emerge world. |
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> Some other interpretation that has never crossed my bow? |
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It's the first. The box was installed with 2005 S1 and never subsequently |
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touched and now I've inherited it. Sorry for not specifying that. |
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Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778 |
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http://doug.hunley.homeip.net |
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Buffy, when I said you could slay vampires and have a social life, I didn't |
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mean at the same time. |
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