Re: building an etch box

2006-04-09 Thread Adam Black
I had a crazy time upgrading from sarge to sid, but eventually I got through it. Here are some things I did. 1) do your kernel first - you need a >2.6.15 or everything will break. I had to use dpkg with force-break and all that to just get the packages that belonged to the kernel 2) If you ha

Re: building an etch box

2006-04-09 Thread Chris Lale
David Clymer wrote: On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 14:00 -0800, Tim Jordan wrote: After building a debian box with the debian-31r1a-i386-netinst.iso I want to upgrade this box to unstable. What is the correct way to do this? I'm thinking I have to change my /etc/apt/sources.list to read unstable,

Re: building an etch box

2006-04-08 Thread David Clymer
On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 18:14 -0800, Tim Jordan wrote: > I guess I didn't make myself very clear - plus I used the wrong > terminology because I thought "etch" was unstable, sorry about that. The unstable branch is always named "sid." Only the stable and testing branches change names. > > I've alr

Re: building an etch box

2006-04-08 Thread hendrik
On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 08:39:12PM -0400, David Clymer wrote: > On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 14:00 -0800, Tim Jordan wrote: > > After building a debian box with the debian-31r1a-i386-netinst.iso I > > want to upgrade this box to unstable. What is the correct way to do > > this? I'm thinking I have to

Re: building an etch box

2006-04-08 Thread Tim Jordan
I guess I didn't make myself very clear - plus I used the wrong terminology because I thought "etch" was unstable, sorry about that. I've already done the steps you listed below and the process choked, which led me to believe that you can't go from stable right to unstable without first upgrading

Re: building an etch box

2006-04-08 Thread David Clymer
On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 14:00 -0800, Tim Jordan wrote: > After building a debian box with the debian-31r1a-i386-netinst.iso I > want to upgrade this box to unstable. What is the correct way to do > this? I'm thinking I have to change my /etc/apt/sources.list to read > unstable, but that didn't w