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#1 2016-09-25 11:26:10

yell!
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Registered: 2011-05-16
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[Solved] how to upgrade a very old installation?

My little low-power home server has archlinux installed from february 2014.
I borke the system with a kernel update in Q3 2014 but I was working abroad, without physical access to the machine. So it was
Now I have access to my little server (an ALIX 3C3, AMD Geode LX800 x86 and 256MB of RAM) and I'm figuring out how to recover the system.

I bring back to life the system with a Clonezilla image from February 2014 but I don't know how to proceed to upgrade the system to the latest version without breaking it again.
Suggestions?

P.S. I also tried to install from a recent installation media but seems that I have problems burning the DVD media.
PXE doesn't work, maybe because of system low ram.

Last edited by yell! (2016-09-27 20:21:49)

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#2 2016-09-25 11:30:01

Spider.007
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Re: [Solved] how to upgrade a very old installation?

Checkout https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ar … cific_date

Choose a directory that's 3 months up from your current install as Server @pacman.conf; then perform a sysupgrade. If that's successful, increment by 3 months and sysupgrade again.

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#3 2016-09-25 16:04:28

atomicbeef
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Re: [Solved] how to upgrade a very old installation?

Spider.007's method is a good idea, but make sure to read all the news that affects each 3 month upgrade, otherwise you risk breaking the system.

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#4 2016-09-25 18:40:18

yell!
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Re: [Solved] how to upgrade a very old installation?

thanks, I'm doing it wink

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#5 2016-09-27 20:21:17

yell!
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Re: [Solved] how to upgrade a very old installation?

Done wink I would like to share some tips.
Most of the work is painless if the archlinux keyring is updated before the whole system. It's commonplace but for me wasn't.

# pacman -Sy archlinux-keyring

then

# pacman -Su

Thanks, now I have a basic archlinux system up and running again.

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