Result: upgradiong from 2.0 to 7.0

[steve%prd.co.uk@localhost (Steve Blinkhorn)]

This story has come to a satisfactory conclusion.   In retrospect, the
importance of the p flag to tar in un[acking the installation sets has
been seared into my mind for future reference.   The servers proved to
have a Promise RAID BIOS, and the current GENERIC kernel picks up
the ataraid pseudo-device and attaches ld*, but the disk have not been
configured properly for this.   So I built a custom kernel, installed
new bootblocks, and everything is runing fine now.

Thanks to all who helped

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Steve Blinkhorn <steve%prd.co.uk@localhost>