-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/01/07 19:10, Arlie Stephens wrote: > On Mar 01 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 03/01/07 18:22, Arlie Stephens wrote: >>> On Mar 01 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: >>>> On 03/01/07 09:48, Arlie Stephens wrote: >> [snip] >>> I'll make one tonight, and try re-installing LILO. >>> Then I'll doubtless be on to the next problem, but it's a stage in the >>> right direction. Thank you very much. >> You know, it would be much faster if you just do a direct install of >> Etch, wiping out (before, of course, saving all mods from /etc...) >> everything except /home. > > *sigh* You are the second person to suggest in effect never actually > upgrading a debian system,
We'd *never* say that. > or at least never going from woody to > sarge. Sure we *would* have, and we *did*. 21 months ago, when Stable Sarge was new. Now, you've got to upgrade from Woody to Sarge and then soon upgrade from Sarge to Etch. That 2-step process is much slower and error-prone than the one-step wipe-and-install Etch. > I'd be much happier is this had happened *after* etch became > officially stable. There's been a lot of churn in the last month or > so, and I'm concerned that somehow having started before it went > stable will get me into similar problems, some time in the future, > updating (or upgrading) etch. Plus, I already have one system on etch, > and it's needing a lot of updating - even while I'm still working on > sorting out the gotchas and normal systems administration chores to > get it into active use. (Serves me right for going with 'testing', but > the improved X support is almost worth the added hassle ;-)) Keeping up with Etch/testing on a bi-weekly basis (famous last words) shouldn't be too onerous. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF53hUS9HxQb37XmcRAkKCAJ4qYrYGxsu2mWu/QQ4wZ7n7Q/4EgQCg4uwa 44gmGUtx+lySUsTXzbnzrgI= =da/5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
