----- Original Message ----- From: "David Millet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian users" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2003 12:13 PM Subject: got my woody working, wanted to upgrade, already ruined my system
> so hi, its me the debian noob again, already breaking my oath to not bug > you folks too much with my issues, but oh well, i'd appreciate some help > anyways. > > they said that the stable debian might be a little outdated and i didnt > listen. but they were right! it installed well, it was stable, but it > was outdated. and me, being the kind of guy that will spend the extra > $10,000 for a car that is brand spankin new, wanted to upgrade David - I'm new to Debian, so take what I have to say with a grain of salt (or a shaker of salt!). I was running Debian Stable for a web,weblog & e-mail server. Decided to upgrade to Testing. I changed my sources.list to point to Testing and away I went. It took a LONG time because my playing PC is an ancient east with very little memory. After running Lilo, the upgrade worked like a charm. I then upgraded the kernel as well (and made the suggested changes to Lilo and re-ran it). Worked like a charm again. I did break things by switching packages and not knowing what they do or how to configure them. Not desktop packages, but went from exim to sendmail to procmail to exim4. A guy is bound to break something by not nowing how those mail packages work or how to configure them. I did the same by switching from uw-pop and uw-imap to Courier.Just had to ask questions and read some doc, and they're function again. My suggestion: listen to people that have done it longer than I have, be prepared for things to work well in the upgrade, but if you switch packages without knowing what they are, how they used to work, and how the work now - be prepared to o some googling! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
