Re: Upgrade Path From Potato :-(

2001-06-09 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 06/08/01 17:02:57 -0700, Jeremiah H. Savage wrote: > >From my experience of upgrading from Potato, I've found it's best to do a > couple of 'apt-get install [foo]' before doing the whole 'dist-upgrade.' The > first foo I install is 'dpkg' (fewer segfaults later on that way), then 'apt'. > Upgrad

Re: Upgrade Path From Potato :-(

2001-06-08 Thread Jeremiah H. Savage
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 04:25:56PM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote: > I'm not sure if I've screwed up here, but I decided to upgrade from > potato to woody last night, but now I can't seem to get X > reconfigured. Looking at dselect, it looks as if I have packages from > both 3.3 and 4.0 versions of X in

Re: upgrade path

1997-08-28 Thread Rob Browning
"Daniel J. Mashao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > problems. 1.2 worked fine, but I upgraded to 1.3.1 and now my monitor does > not do 800x600. Did you try su mv /etc/X11/XF86Config /etc/X11/XF86Config.old # Just want to make sure there aren't any old ones lying around to # confuse XF86Se

Re: upgrade path

1997-08-26 Thread Dale Scheetz
Here is what the upgrading notes say on the subject. I believe that this will address all of your problems. Maybe it will help someone else avoid your difficulties. To get a smooth upgrade from 1.1 or 1.2 make sure to install the following, by hand after first clearing the available file as follow

Re: upgrade path

1997-08-26 Thread Gilbert Laycock
> "Joost" == Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [Snip: there are problems upgrading direct from 1.1 to 1.3] Joost> If you or others can shed some light on what goes wrong, I will Joost> look into that. I have an Infomagic 1.1.something cd (september Joost> 96) and a 1.3.0 "oficial" cd.

Re: upgrade path

1997-08-25 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Mon, 25 Aug 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: > From: Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > P.S. One reason to have 1.1 is because the base disk will work on the > > thinkpads that reject the 1.2 and 1.3. I think this could be fixed if we > > released a rescue disk that doesn't need to be a bzima

Re: upgrade path

1997-08-23 Thread Rick Hawkins
bruce wrote, > > We want it to be easy for people to upgrade. However, it's currently > difficult for people who had 1.1 on their systems to upgrade to 1.3, > because the best way to do this was to install 1.2 and then 1.3 . You can > go straight from 1.1 to 1.3, but I hear this is much more diffi

Re: upgrade path

1997-08-22 Thread Joey Hess
Bruce Perens wrote: > When you look at the size of our FTP archive it's clear we need to remove > stuff eventually. I'd be happy to have a site where old stuff could remain > for a much longer time - is anyone still keeping 1.2 on-line? Take a look at ftp://debian.crosslink.net/pub/debian-old/ The

Re: upgrade path

1997-08-22 Thread joost witteveen
> We want it to be easy for people to upgrade. However, it's currently > difficult for people who had 1.1 on their systems to upgrade to 1.3, > because the best way to do this was to install 1.2 and then 1.3 . You can > go straight from 1.1 to 1.3, but I hear this is much more difficult. > We kept

Re: upgrade path

1997-08-22 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Daniel" == Daniel J Mashao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Daniel> On Fri, 22 Aug 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: >> Bruce Perens wrote: >> >> We want it to be easy for people to upgrade. However, it's >> currently difficult for people who had 1.1 on their systems to >> upgrade to 1.3, because the b

Re: upgrade path

1997-08-22 Thread Daniel J. Mashao
On Fri, 22 Aug 1997, Bruce Perens wrote: > Bruce Perens wrote: > > We want it to be easy for people to upgrade. However, it's currently > difficult for people who had 1.1 on their systems to upgrade to 1.3, > because the best way to do this was to install 1.2 and then 1.3 . You can I understand y

Re: Upgrade path to 1.3 from 1.2

1997-06-24 Thread George Bonser
On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Will Lowe wrote: > Should I just select EVERYTHING? YIKES! Don't do THAT! You will spend so much time in the conflict resolution screen that you will NEVER figure out what to do! You might take a close look at the packages marked IMPORTANT first. Select which of these you

Re: Upgrade path to 1.3 - "Chicken & Egg problem"

1997-06-18 Thread Joost Kooij
On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, Edouard Katz wrote: > Have decide recently to move to Debian (fully support its policy) so I went > on the net and found the necessary stuff to install the base1_3 system. > Installed very well without a problem on my old 486/33 no CD. The only way > to install from a CD is

Re: Upgrade path to 1.3 - "Chicken & Egg problem"

1997-06-18 Thread Edouard Katz
At 17:13 17/6/97 +0200, you wrote: > > >On Tue, 17 Jun 1997, Edouard Katz wrote: > >> At 22:58 16/6/97 +0200, you wrote: >> > >> > >> >On Mon, 16 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > >> >> I have a standalone Debian 1.2 machine ;( - so here is what I plan to do: >> >> >> >> 1. Identify all packa

Re: Upgrade path to 1.3

1997-06-17 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Joost Kooij wrote: > > > On Mon, 16 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I have a standalone Debian 1.2 machine ;( - so here is what I plan to do: > > > > 1. Identify all packages that where updated on 1.3 and dld them, including > >the Packages file. > > > > 2. Up

Re: Upgrade path to 1.3

1997-06-16 Thread Joost Kooij
On Mon, 16 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a standalone Debian 1.2 machine ;( - so here is what I plan to do: > > 1. Identify all packages that where updated on 1.3 and dld them, including >the Packages file. > > 2. Updating dpkg: >dpkg --clear-avail >dpkg -i ldso_*.deb