Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am running potato on my other machine, but I want to upgrade my > laptop from > Slink to Potato. If I understand correctly, you had to install a > whole new > Potato system from scratch. That is exactly what I want to avoid; I > want to > upgrade the system I have now.
I did the upgrade some time ago. If I remember rightly I upgraded to the 2.2.x kernel first and made the recommended upgrades to other parts of the system. I then had a Slink system running 2.2.x. I then used apt-get to install a package I knew needed libc6 2.1 which got my Slink box to the libc6 2.1 level. Everything appeared to work correctly, so a few days later I did apt-get dist-upgrade and got a smooth upgrade to Potato, where I am now. The step-by-step approach worked well for me. I do a weekly apt-get upgrade (using unstable, of course) to keep my system current and have rarely had a problem. A few minor things which have been reported in this list, but nothing as major as my system refusing to boot into Linux, or X not running etc.. -- Phillip Deackes Debian Linux (Potato)
