One apparrent success: apt-get dist-upgrade slink -> potato on an old ast laptop. The kernel is actually 2.0.29 and hasn't been changed for a long time! (I still have it so I don't break my pcmcia ethernet, mostly due to laziness).
Only problem I have seen is that the new system tried to load every possible kernel module on the planet, include a dreaded sbpcd module that spends 10 minutes looking for its card on bootup. There are warnings during the upgrade about this, and pointers to the new module loading configuration. Thanks for the excellent work. nathan Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 26-Dec-1999 Tobias Zimpel wrote: > > > > Well, I broke my system completely a few weeks ago with a simple > > (segfaulting) > > 'apt-get dist-upgrade' while I was running potato for months without serious > > problems. There was no chance to repair it; I couldn't even boot, and I > > didn't manage to repair it using a rescue disk. The only sollution was to > > install the whole system new from the scratch. :-( > > > > But I'd say that potato is stable enough to use it without serious problems. > > 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. > > thanks > > -- > Andrew > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > -- N a t h a n O . S i e m e r s Bioinformatics Division of Applied Genomics Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute Hopewell Building 3B, P.O. Box 5400, Princeton, NJ 08543-5400 609 818-6568 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
