----- Original Message ----- From: "Howard Jow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Cc: <debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org> Sent: Monday, July 31, 2000 8:45 PM Subject: Debian 2.1 to Debian 2.2 upgrade.
> Hi, I am a systems administrator at the University of New Mexico. I am > trying to upgrade approximately 80 Debian Linux boxxen from 2.1 to 2.2. > We are currently running slink and we want to move to potato. Here is > basically what I am doing: > > changing /etc/apt/sources.list to use potato > apt-get update > apt-get dist-upgrade > Are the machines having nearly the same config? Should be if it are user workstations. Then make a disk image and just use it everywhere. Use dhcp for IP adress allocation, and a script that uses the then allocated IP address to update the (individual) config on a machine, like I said depending on the IP. Jens
