I'm about to upgrade my woody system to eather testing or unstable (probably unstable, because I gather that temporarily broken package dependencies don'e cause as much mass deletion and restoration of entire suites of packages there) Please correct me if I am wrong on any of these details.
I plan to preserve my existing woody, because I use it for essential system management of my Windows ME system on the same machine. Given the number of times I have to restore the C: partition from backup it would be a disaster if I were to be unable to access the Linux system for any reason for even just a day (especially if it was the wrong day, anyway) I gather that the installation/upgrade situation has changes somewhat over the last half year. I've thought of the following approaches. WHich, if any, do you recommend? (1) Get a copy of the new installer, and use it to replace my Mandrake partition (which I haven't used in months, and isn't even on my boot menu) with a new installation of Debian. This would probably recogise all my devices correctly. Currently I am unable to access any of the 3D features of my ATI Raden 8500DV. The drivers I got from ATI just wouldn't work. I heard that the newsest XFree stuff has started to properly support the card, though. I also don't yet have sound installed. (2) Copy the entire Debain woody partition, replacing the Mandrake partition, adjusting .etc.fstab o the new partition so it points to itself, adding the copy as an additional entry to lilo.conf, making /home symlink to the existing /home on the old woody, booting into the new copy and doing a dist-upgrade. Presumably I'd still have to wrestle with sound and 3D-acceleration issues. I suspet dist-upgrade won't do this for me. (3) there's probably abother approach I can't think of, -- hendrik P.S. Other related questions: I heard a long time ago that the reiser file system couldn't handle some special files, such as Hene i've avoided using it for my root partition. the ones in /dev. Is this still a problem in sarge or testing? Is it a problem in woody? Are there any issues in sharing a reiser partition between woody and sargs? Are there version incompatibilities that will kill me if I' not careful? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
