On Monday 09 April 2007 19:04, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 09:41:06AM -0500, Seth Goodman wrote: > > I've started an upgrade from Sarge to Etch through the Synaptic Package > > manager under Gnome. The package repositories all look for stable. I > > selected the "normal" level of questions from the terminal interface. > > Please note that the release notes that cover the upgrade say _not_ to > try it via X, to use aptitude from the command line. > > Doug.
Perhaps it's not a good idea upgrading while X is running, but the only problems I've ever had were when upgrading from Woody to Sarge. I seem to remember X being shutdown, and having to continue the upgrade from the command line. I've recently upgraded a Sarge install to Etch with X running, and including the transition from Xfree 86 to Xorg, and have had no problems, and whenever there have been X updates to Etch, I've just let them go ahead with the Xserver running with no problems. Perhaps I've just got away with it, or maybe the X updates arn't applied until I next reboot the machine. Anyway Debian rocks, especially with version upgrades. I also have Fedora Core versions on my 2 machines, but have never upgraded from one version to the next. I have seen so many problems with this on the Fedora list. Upgrading from FC5 to FC6, and loads of FC5 packages being left on the machine. I've always done fresh installs of the latest Fedora version, but Debian seems to handle the version upgrades a lot better. I'm sending this from Kmail on FC2, but have Etch running on the other machine. Not the Sarge to Etch upgrade I've recently done, but the Woody to Sarge, then kept on testing, which moved up to Etch when Sarge went stable. This recently has had the sources changed to point to Etch rather than testing when I saw that Etch was soon to become stable. Now that Etch is stable I think I will put this Etch install back on testing, and see how Lenny goes. I'm not so close to the edge that I'm going to try Sid though. lol. So currently apart from Fedora FC1,2,3,4,5, and 6, Slackware 10.0, Gentoo (which on dialup I havn't updated for ages, as it takes forever), and not forgetting Kubuntu, I have 1 Sarge install, 1 Etch install, and 1 Etch install which I am about to put back on testing. Hope that doesn't mess up all the music apps I have installed on it!! Nigel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
