On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 11:13:04AM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote:
| Thought I'd post my experiences here with my Potato to Woody
| upgrade.
Given the recent number of posts discussing potato->woody, I think
I'll post my (recent) experience as well. Presumably most of the
posts were regarding problems (posts usually are) but I didn't read
most of them.
My setup :
486SX 25MHz, 8MB RAM, 120MB hard drive,
on ethernet lan with gateway to dsl
Tuesday (2/19) night I started to upgrade it since it will become the
gateway (at my parents home) when I take my workstation with me on
co-op next quarter. First I put woody in the sources.list and
'apt-get update'. This took about half an hour -- the machine
thrashes a lot with the package management tools. Next I started an
'apt-get dist-upgrade'. Its not a critical machine with any real
config to worry about so I was not concerned with possible breakage.
The download didn't take to long but the package install took about 2
days to complete. The cause of that is I didn't stick around so
sometimes it would block waiting for me to come back and answer a
config question.
I'm still working on the upgrade, getting some new stuff and cleaning
out some old stuff and installing a new kernel (compiled on my
workstation, I don't even want to know how many days it would take on
this machine). The only problem I've had is the thrashing of the
machine, and that is due to lack of memory.
This experience may differ from what most others will experience
because this is a very small system with no X or LaTeX or C/C++/Java
development tools or other extras.
-D
--
Be sure of this: The wicked will not go unpunished,
but those who are righteous will go free.
Proverbs 11:21
