Thanks you all for your replies.
It sounds like I should stick to stable for now at least (till I get
more confident about what I'm doing).
The package I'm most concerned about upgrading is the kernel. I built
this from the sources at kernel.org and used a Debian tool (can't
remember the name now) to make a .deb file from it and installed ith
with dpkg I think.
Will doing 'apt-get upgrade' or 'apt-get dist-upgrade' install the
default kernel? Will it leave mine in the GRUB menu at least? I'd like
to make sure that apt-get doesn't overwrite the kernel with the standard
prebuilt one - I presume mine will still be in the GRUB menu at least.
Thanks,
Yasir
Yasir Assam wrote:
Hello,
I installed DVDs of Sarge when it was the testing distribution
(before the 3.1 release). Specifically I installed a snapshot dated
30 April 2005. When I installed it the following lines were added to
/etc/apt/sources.list:
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Sarge_ - Official Snapshot i386
Binary-3 (20050430)]/ unstable contrib main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Sarge_ - Official Snapshot i386
Binary-2 (20050430)]/ unstable contrib main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Sarge_ - Official Snapshot i386
Binary-1 (20050430)]/ unstable contrib main
I now have broadband and would like to upgrade to the Unstable dist.
What's the best way of doing this? I added the following line to
sources.list:
deb http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/debian unstable main contrib non-free
and then did the following:
# apt-get update
Is it safe just to issue the following command?
$ apt-get upgrade
With all the transitions that are taking place right now in unstable,
I would be very cautious in upgrading to unstable at this moment.
However if you are brave enough then you can use the above command. It
is safe in the sense that it will not remove any packages from your
system and it will not mess up your configuration files etc.,
bye
raju
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