On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 04:02:31PM -0400, Aaron wrote: > Hey Debian-lovers, > > I know this question must get asked a lot, but I wasn't able to turn > up many good answers (and the answer I'm looking for is largely an > opinion, anyhow). > > I've just (re)installed Woody on my laptop for about the third time. > The first time I mucked things up severely with Partition Magic, and > the second time I tried to change all of my apt sources to testing and > do an upgrade, which destroyed a lot of perfectly good settings... > > My question is whether there is a "safe" (I mean *relatively* safe) > way to move from stable to testing without serious damage, or if I'm > better off formatting and installing from the Sarge netinst CD?
DON'T run the Sarge netinst CD, unless you want to test the installer and fill out some bug reports, ;-) Yes, there is a safe way. I moved from stable, to testing to unstable in the course of a few months and everything works, well mostly. If you know beforehand that you want to switch, don't install a lot of complex things like kde. If you already have them, no problem. What I did was simple. Make sure you only have the official debian sources. That means two at most, one for normal debian, one for non_US. You can have deb-src lines, of course. Do an apt-get update, do an apt-get dist-upgrade. Make sure that not tons of packages get removed and hit yes. Wait... Done. In my case, it was as simple as that, ;-) HTH, David -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus. Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
