dang, this debian is sooo cool. On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 07:31:51PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 12:52:03PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > > all i can find on debian.org about making the leap is in osamu's > > document at > > > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-woody.en.html > > > > is this still a reasonably sane approach? (of course, we'd have > > to s/stable/potato/ and s/unstable/woody/ to keep it > > meaningful.) > > Doesn't look too silly, but it seems overcomplicated. I really wouldn't > bother with /etc/apt/preferences when going from one stable release to > the next.
i considered it, but didn't munge them at all. only a switch in sources.list from potato to woody, is all. > > seems a bit odd, to me, that there's not more pointers on the > > main site for upgrading. or are there some search parameters > > i've not thought of? > > How about the release notes? > > http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/releasenotes i finally found them, too. and VOILA! all is lovely in woody-land. i did have some odd dependencies (cpan left its fingerprints) but i just did apt-get upgrade about four times and each time there were less speedbumps until all was right with the world -- as if i had a rolling pin, crushing out the lumps in the dough. and that went so well, that i figured -- what the heck -- i may as well upgrade the kernel, too. now THAT was utterly seamless. i had to add one line to lilo.conf, and after running lilo i rebooted. perfection! kudos to the debian gang. THIS absolutely HAS to be the future of computing. it's nice to see the future now and then. nicely done. == note that i'm still on potato where i send emails from. i'll fix that in a few weeks when schedules permit. debian is awesome! -- I use Debian/GNU Linux version 2.2; Linux server 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #72 from USM Bish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Prefer to LOGIN IN VIA CONSOLE INSTEAD OF VIA GUI? No problem. A freshly-installed "X" window display system by default boots into GUI, instead of having you log in at the text console. This is because of "xdm" or "gdm" or "kdm". To avoid this and boot into console mode instead: update-rc.d -f xdm remove This will remove all system startup links in /etc/init.d for xdm. You can still get X up and running via "startx" but it won't intervene in your login process. Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
