On 15-May-2000 David E. Young wrote: > Greetings. I am brand new to Debian, but a long-time Linux > user/administrator (mostly RedHat). > > I've installed Debian 2.1 from CD onto my SPARC IPX; the process went > flawlessly and the system is running fine. I would like to try an > upgrade to the upcoming 2.2 release, primarily because I'd like the > experience of an ftp upgrade with dselect/apt. > > I believe I've determined most of the proper steps; use dselect, > choose the "apt" option during "access", use the "frozen" > distribution, etc. However, I'd feel better if there was a > step-by-step guide to this process. For example, during the initial > installation of 2.1 I chose one of the standard configurations, then > augmented it with some additional networking stuff. I want to maintain > this identical configuration yet upgrade to 2.2. Will dselect handle > this for me, or will it try and install everything? Perhaps I should > use APT instead (apt-get dist-upgrade)?
No, dselect will not try to install everything, but I suggest to use apt-get only and not bother with dselect's apt method. It will give you a bunch of dependency problems, and screw up your existing configuration.apt-get is much easier and cleaner to use, and it will handle the upgrade intelligently (for documentation check the manpages of apt-get and sources.list).
