It may work, the critical path would be MX21 -> MX23,Hello all,
One of my current use cases for Linux is to boot copy to ram from a USB. I've used MX for a while now with great success. With all of the live USB tools, it has been great.
However, I'd like to update to the next MX release, and I can't seem to find a way to do that. For example, update from MX 21.1 to MX 23.1. I can update from the old repositories, but I can't get a full update from the new ones (bookworm, I believe). I read the update wiki, but it says it only works with full installs, not live ones. I went ahead and tried it though, and sure enough, it didn't work.
Is there a way to update MX without reinstalling and losing all changes? Or at least without destroying my data partition?
Regards,
KingJames
Those steps
* Create a ISO-Snapshot the running Live MX-21
with the option personal snapshot
and keep the iso-snapshot safe as it would also be like a backup.
* Now either remaster the existing LiveMX-21
or might be safer, create a new LiveUSB with the ISO-snapshot.
* Next boot with the remastered or the new LiveUSB with enabled persistent
* Follow the migration path mention in the wiki .... MX-21 --> MX-23
If that worked Don't reboot yet, but create another MX-23-ISO-snapshot.
* Now try to create a LiveUSB with help of the new MX-23-ISO-snapshot.
You may need enough RAM to make this work.
The fastest snapshot I get with ceating snapshot also in ram and compression zstd level=9
I'm using /tmpdir as snapshot target dir and workdir with about 20GB tmpfs ram.
Statistics: Posted by fehlix — Tue Dec 26, 2023 7:28 pm