Brad R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyways, here's my first question. I've heard Woody mentioned several times > now and I thought it was a seperate distribution of Debian. Now, I've begun > hearing about upgrading? to it. Where would I find out how to do that? > Just point me in the right direction if it's too long to explain.
Woody is a nickname for the testing release of Debian. It has newer versions of softwares, but it is not as stable as Debian potato (stable release). Do you have an internet connection? If you do, then you can do the upgrading via net. To upgrade from stable to testing, you should modify your /etc/apt/sources.list. I have the following lines in it (modify them to suit your needs); deb ftp://ftp.fi.debian.org/debian testing main non-free contrib deb-src ftp://ftp.fi.debian.org/debian testing main non-free contrib deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-\free Then do; apt-get update && apt-get -u dist-upgrade But, I do not recommend upgrading to testing, if you are new to Linux. Many things can get broken and fixing them will make your hair turn grey. ;-) But, if you like to tweak and screw around the system, then by all means - go on, and upgrade. -- Jussi Ekholm, "Everything is so fine it could be little, ill flower don't let your mind take you in misery [EMAIL PROTECTED] all the feelings you're not so much pleased http://goa-head.org/ekhowl they're just to take you to sweet harmony"
