Hmm I have done this with one machine and now when it gets to Begin: Waiting for root file system
it hangs and says /dev/hda1 does not exist uh oh!! On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 14:48 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 09:32:38PM +0000, lostson wrote: > > Hello > > I have a laptop and a desktop machine running sarge. I would like to > > update them to etch. I am thinking I have heard I can do this with > > aptitude, is this possible and if so anyone got a links to a good doc? > > Or can I jsut use my sources list from this machine on the other 2 and > > do a apt-get update then apt-get upgrade ? Thanks. > > well, I think the standard procedure is to change your sources.list, > and your default distibution in apt.conf and then apt-get update && > apt-get dist-upgrade. but it can be pretty > ugly. > > I've done it twice taking sarge all the way up to sid and what I did > was clean up my system first. I apt-get --purge removed any packages I > wasn't using and then used deborphan to clear out the built-up > cruft. My theory was the less I had to upgrade the better. Definitely > back-up well first. In fact, you'd probably be best served to image > the hwole system first so you can start over from scratch if need be. > > Overall, it wasn't too bad. In fact, I don't remember any problems in > my last sarge->sid upgrade. ymmv. > > A > > oh yeah, watch out for the X.org 7.0 stuff. review the list archives > from the last couple weeks. > > A > > > -- > > LostSon > > > > http://www.lostsonsvault.org > > > > > > /\ > > \ \ \__/ \__/ > > \ \ (oo) (oo) > > \_\/~~\_/~~\_ > > _.-~===========~-._ > > (___________________) > > \_______/ > > > > I Want To Believe > > -- LostSon http://www.lostsonsvault.org /\ \ \ \__/ \__/ \ \ (oo) (oo) \_\/~~\_/~~\_ _.-~===========~-._ (___________________) \_______/ I Want To Believe
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