Re: Recommended way to upgrade from Sarge to Etch

2008-01-02 Thread Jonathan Wilson
On Wednesday 02 January 2008 20:28, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Then again, my upgrade ended up killing libc6 in the middle which gave > the system a heart attack. I reinstalled. And since I know from experience that "these things happen", that's why I double-checked. Also, sometimes the pros have

Re: Recommended way to upgrade from Sarge to Etch

2008-01-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 07:43:51PM -0600, Jonathan Wilson wrote: > Please excuse the dumb question, but: > > Is this still the recommended way to upgrade from Sarge to Etch?: > > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html > > That page ma

Re: Recommended way to upgrade from Sarge to Etch

2008-01-02 Thread David
Jonathan Wilson wrote: Please excuse the dumb question, but: Is this still the recommended way to upgrade from Sarge to Etch?: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html That page makes it out like using aptitude is somehow better than apt-get. I've

Re: Recommended way to upgrade from Sarge to Etch

2008-01-02 Thread Paul Johnson
On Jan 2, 2008 5:43 PM, Jonathan Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is this still the recommended way to upgrade from Sarge to Etch?: > > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html > > That page makes it out like using aptitude is someho

Recommended way to upgrade from Sarge to Etch

2008-01-02 Thread Jonathan Wilson
Please excuse the dumb question, but: Is this still the recommended way to upgrade from Sarge to Etch?: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html That page makes it out like using aptitude is somehow better than apt-get. I've never used aptitude, onl