On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 07:56:29PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > At 09:48 AM 02/20/02 -0600, Rob VanFleet wrote: > >Ok, I am now better informed. It does say alot about the upgrade > >process that I have not been doing that and have gone through several > >stable->testing->unstable upgrades without incident.
Wow, you must be very lucky. Do you have X on it or just BASH :) > Hum, I wish I had better luck. What are you reading that has been > helping? There will be "incident" if you upgrade many times. That is why it is called "testing", or "unstable". "incident" can be dealt with minimum trouble if you know how. http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/quick-reference/ This may help you. > I've installed about six times over the last week. Starting with > Potato CDs, and for about the last three times using floppies. Mostly > I'm repeating the installation because I ran out of salt to rub in my > cuts. Sounds like you may have a bad CD and creating FD from CD. > I managed to get good diskettes for all except driver-4. Use IDEPCI image. You may not even use driver disks. :) > My experience has been poor with the apt-get update / apt-get > dist-upgrade cycle, even with trying to update apt and dpkg first > between each step. My best luck as been install base Potato, then use > dselect to update, selecte (accept defaults) and the Install, and > repeat for testing and sid. I've managed to get to sid once so far. > I'm not clear why that's working better. Before installing, you can go to console by pressing ALT-F2. Then use editor to edit /etc/sources.list. You can skip most minimum potato install downloads. That is a small trick. > That dselect method of upgrading loads quite a few packages. I was > wishing for a ligher-weight system. You can unselect it by pressing "_" for large package such as tetex and emacs. dselect autoselect basic packages. > I'm trying again right now, but the testing->sid is going slow due to > sudden slow connection, and, oddly enough, 404 errors on some > packages. Hum. Maybe there was an update to sid while I was > downloading. That happens sometime. Few reasons. 1) Slow ISP to Internet connection. 2) Slow server Most URL is round robin DNS. So many server at different IP is called by a same URL and they are randomly chosen through DNS system. So some host are faster than other. > It's not a smooth process. For example, I'm mounting to /home > /dev/hda3 an existing partition. Using the driver disks Potato > doesn't umount my that partition on first reboot, so I have to wait > while 60GB is checked. Not to mention how much time it all takes. Why mount? You can manually umount it. fstab just needed to be edited. > I've been trying to understand how to use .deb files between > installations, with limited luck, Put them all in /var/cache/apt/archives/ then you are all set, I think. Try it and tell me what happens. > and how to avoid using the four driver disks, also with limited > success. Copying my cached .deb files back to the cache between > installations hasn't seemed to avoid downloading, but I haven't looked > that closely. IDEPCI boot image is your friend. > Sid finally finished. About 2 1/2 hours from Potato boot disk to Sid. Well not too bad. :) -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ +++++ Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D Visit Debian reference http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/quick-reference/ There are 6 files: index.{en|fr|it}.html quick-reference.{en|fr|it}.txt I welcome your constructive criticisms and corrections.
