Having already upgraded to glibc 2.1 and reading recommendations that one should upgrade to potato if using glibc 2.1, I decided last night to give it a go.
I have only a dial-up connection and 56K modem. I entered apt-get update and then apt-get dist-upgrade and went to be. In the morning, 7 hours later, I was no longer connected and it looked like the upgrade had happened, although there were error messages in the console about a few packages apt-get was unable to find. I added a UK mirror to my apt.sources list and did apt-get dist-upgrade and off it went again for the few packages remaining. Then it did a full upgrade, with a few minor problems inbetween. Wonderful stuff, and if even though I will pay around 80p an hour (just over 1 USD) for the telephone connection it is still cheaper than buying the CDs. I am not entirely happy that apt-get has problems when certain packages are unavailble. If everything is where it is expected, it goes so smoothly, but when a few things are missing is just seems to stop dead in its tracks. I only got by with trial and error. Nice to be using Potato - the upgrade has actually fixed quite a few cracks in my previous install. I had used dselect before. Everything is working as it should. Just though someone might be interested! -- Phillip Deackes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian Linux (Potato)
