There have been several posts on debian-user asking how to use apt-get to upgrade from hamm to slink, now that the binaries no longer fit on a single CD.
I've seen two answers so far on the list---both of them containing very helpful suggestions, but very different from one another, and both sort of telegraphic. There must be hundreds, if not thousands, of people out there now who have just received the CD pack from Cheapbytes or Linux Central or wherever and who, like me, have no idea at all how to do the upgrade using apt-get. I've looked pretty diligently in the places I know about, but I haven't managed to find any advice on this. The upgrade advice contained in the Release Notes for 2.1 suggests the use of apt-get for the upgrade, but there's no mention there of the multiple-cd problem. Nor does it discuss the issue for dselect. There is some very brief advice in the multiCD.README file on the CD itself, but this talks only about installation, not about an upgrade, and it refers only to dselect. The man page for apt-get tells you how to use a mounted CD as the archive, but you can't guess from it how to use apt-get when the packages are spread across two CDs and you can only mount one at a time. The smoothness of the upgrade from bo to hamm using apt-get was one of the things that really convinced me that debian was the best linux distribution for people like me (a reasonably knowledgeable user, but *not* a programmer). The lack of advice, official or unofficial, about this very basic problem for users strikes me as weird and untypical. Is there anywhere where somebody like me can go and read a reasonably clear account of how to use apt-get to do the upgrade with the two CD's? Is there an official `debian position' on how to do it? Jim
