"Chris Tillman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 07:59:59PM -0800, eric brown wrote:
> > 
> > --- eric brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 09:06:21 -0800 (PST)
> > > From: eric brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Subject: Install Report from a Linux newbie - some
> > > comments
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> You upgraded to _sid_? Not too wise for a newbie. You may
> encounter serious non-newbie-fixable problems. Unfortunately 
> there's no 'downgrade' command, so if you've already put some

Actually there is, through pining. But nothing says it should to work
even if it usually does for small downgrades. Going from sid to sarge
is probably save, going all the way to woody will most likely trash
the system in some non-newbie-fixable way as you put it.

> time in getting what you want, good luck. Otherwise maybe
> you should consider re-installing woody, and if you upgrade
> just upgrade to sarge (testing), not sid.

One could just swith over to testing and wait for the alreay installed
sid packages to migrate there. If everything works now that shouldn't
create any big problems.

MfG
        Goswin


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