Re: Questions about upgrading from stretch to testing

2018-11-14 Thread Shane Dev
On Wed, 14 Nov 2018 at 16:04, john doe wrote: > > Any reasons why you want package from testing and not from Stretch > backports? > > because I didn't know Stretch backports existed - now I do. It seems to offer to the stability of the stretch destribution with the ability to upgrade certain pack

Re: Questions about upgrading from stretch to testing

2018-11-14 Thread john doe
On 11/14/2018 12:58 PM, Shane Dev wrote: > Hello, > > I downloaded firmware-9.6.0-amd64-netinst.iso and successfully installed a > minimal debian stretch on my UEFI/GPT disk. I then I replaced all > references to "stretch" with "testing" in /etc/apt/sources.list and > executed sudo apt update; sud

Re: Questions about upgrading from stretch to testing

2018-11-14 Thread songbird
Shane Dev wrote: ... > 3. Last time I tried apt upgrade, my grub menu was replaced with the grub > command prompted. If there any way to avoid this happening again? while testing has been fairly decent, once in a while there are issues you may have to resolve via other means. if you are new e

Re: Questions about upgrading from stretch to testing

2018-11-14 Thread Dan Ritter
Shane Dev wrote: > Hello, > > I downloaded firmware-9.6.0-amd64-netinst.iso and successfully installed a > minimal debian stretch on my UEFI/GPT disk. I then I replaced all > references to "stretch" with "testing" in /etc/apt/sources.list and > executed sudo apt update; sudo apt install gnome-cor

Questions about upgrading from stretch to testing

2018-11-14 Thread Shane Dev
Hello, I downloaded firmware-9.6.0-amd64-netinst.iso and successfully installed a minimal debian stretch on my UEFI/GPT disk. I then I replaced all references to "stretch" with "testing" in /etc/apt/sources.list and executed sudo apt update; sudo apt install gnome-core firefox-esr. Everything work