The safest way to transition from potato to woody is not to install woody over potato, but to run 'apt-get dist-upgrade'. The upgrade capability is what distinguishes Debian from the rest of the pack.
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 09:16:10PM +0200, DSC Extra wrote: > This is me, having gotten my email back up and running on my Win98 system and > no longer bound to webmail. Same guy. > > Anyhow, I got the tarball, and reinstalled -- got error 1 again. > > [Attempt 5] Went ahead and tried reinstalling with minimum optional > configurations, > just SCSI and LPR. Everything else left alone. Still got Error 1. Submitted > bug report... it's my guess that this kind of a bug with debootstrap would be > called release-critical, [but I'm not a developer, I could be wrong.] > > I'm thinking... if you have Potato running, now might not be a good time to > try and install Woody. Especially not if you are depending on your system > right > now. > > > Michael Rudmin wrote: > > > I was hoping to get Baltic fonts, and I had just > > installed, and I read that Debian is advising new > > installers to install Woody instead of Potato. So I > > figured why not reinstall. > > > > First, let me preface by naming my system. 800 Mhz > > PII, *slow* permanent web link, everything else > > normal. > > Also, my weblink often drops connections, resulting in > > crashed downloads. I can tell by the size whether it > > is successful or not. > > > > I decided to download the disk images. > > > > Attempt 1- Downloaded 20 images. Took a few retries, > > but that's what a slow permanent link is good for. > > Installed them on my hard disk on a vfat partition. > > Went to install. Whoops! There is no provision for > > using disk images from the hard disk. Have either > > tarball it or RAWRITE it. [*That*, IMHO, should > > change.) > > > > Attempt 2-RAWrote the disks. Went to install. Got to > > Disk 11 -- it was no good. Had to bomb out and try > > again. > > > > Attempt 3-ReRawrote Disk 11. Went back to install > > again. Got through the entire loading procedure. > > Computer created Tar ball out of disks, went to > > validate it, and discovered -- invalid Tarball. > > > > Attempt 4-trying the impossible: downloading a Tarball > > over Windoze and my slow line. > > > > It looks to me like Woody is not quite ready for > > install. > > > > P.S. If you reply to this cc: me over at Mike_Rudmin > > "at" yahoo.com, or I won't see it. Not that I have > > to. [@ sign was spelled out to jinx spammers]. > > > > Option 3- > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
