Re: slink->frozen upgrade problems

2000-02-24 Thread john s jacobs anderson
> "Nathan" == Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Nathan> I was able to get aorund this, but I DO NOT recommend that Nathan> anyone use my method!! If you do, don't tell me about how Nathan> screwed up your system got. Quick follow-up to report that Nathan's method did in fact

Re: slink->frozen upgrade problems

2000-02-23 Thread john s jacobs anderson
> "Nathan" == Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Nathan> I was able to get aorund this, but I DO NOT recommend that Nathan> anyone use my method!! If you do, don't tell me about how Nathan> screwed up your system got. [snip] Nathan, you're the man! I'll give this a try tomorro

Re: slink->frozen upgrade problems

2000-02-23 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 11:37:13AM -0700, john s anderson wrote: [ snip ] > However, I'd like to update the installation to at least frozen, and > probably to unstable -- and that's where the problem comes in. After doing > the base install, I add the frozen line to sources.list, do `apt-get > upda

Re: slink->frozen upgrade problems

2000-02-23 Thread John G. Norman
Same *exact* problem here--stuck on the "pre-depend" error. No fiddling could get over the bump. At 04:34 PM 2/22/2000 -0700, john s anderson wrote: On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Mike Werner wrote: > On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 11:37:13AM -0700, john s anderson wrote: > > The way I did this was jump in wit

Re: slink->frozen upgrade problems

2000-02-22 Thread john s anderson
On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Mike Werner wrote: > On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 11:37:13AM -0700, john s anderson wrote: > > The way I did this was jump in with both feet. I did > apt-get update > apt-get dist-upgrade Just to clarify: the above does *NOT* work, as of 1630 MST 02/22/2000. The libc6_2.1.3-4_i

Re: slink->frozen upgrade problems

2000-02-22 Thread Mike Werner
On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 11:37:13AM -0700, john s anderson wrote: > Greetings! > > I've been trying to move a system at work from Red Hat to Debian for the > last day or so, without much success. The initial slink install goes okay > (I'm using the CD from the O'Reilly book), and I'm able to selec