Hello, while I'm not new on www.debian.org it's the first time I send something back to Debian's people. So excuse me, if I took the wrong addressees for this mail and give me an advice I can follow next time ... OK?
Well, I'm interested in Linux about half a year. I'll never know again where I heared about Debian ... maybe it was an on-line diskussion on advantages and disadvantages of various Linux distributions. However: I thank for the decision I made for Debian GNU/Linux !!! All the time there was nobody (physical) nearby to give me any advice despite of some hints for using the bash from a free-BSD user (He urgently recommended BSD to me ...). Knowing I would take the hardest way down to the depths of Linux I made it, driven by the idea that the computer administrator should CONTROL what's going on on his/her system. Clear stable systems are the promise of people behind the Debian distribution. After much learning in HOWTO's, manpages, etc. I have now three machines up with Debian GNU/Linux 2.2, two are dual bootable for convenience of me as an "upgrader" from Win9x :-) With the information from to mailing lists I made a REALLY painless update from slink to potato on all three machines with apt via ftp. Here is what I did: (after updating my "/etc/apt/sources" with current IP numbers(!) of the ftp hosts instead of "ftp.debian.org" and other sites plus the new paths "*/non-US main contrib non-free" instead of old "*/non-US") # some important lines from /etc/apt/sources #deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free #is now ... deb ftp://141.76.2.4/debian stable main contrib non-free #deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free deb ftp://141.76.2.4/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free # and mirror sites with same style ... (thanks for details in the documents "ch-upgrading.en.html" and "ch-upgrading.de.html" from Debian Documentation Project team <debian-doc@lists.debian.org> ) > dpkg -i /*path*/dpkg_1.6.13_i386.deb > dpkg -i /*path*/apt_0.3.19_i386.deb (downloaded from "http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/upgrade-i386/";) > apt-get update > apt-get install ldso > apt-get install libc6 > apt-get install perl-5.005 (thanks to: Ron Rademaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > apt-get --fix-broken --show-upgraded dist-upgrade > dselect (with the apt access-method) did the rest for me to get some new useful packages including the masqdailer(!) Only trouble was with libpam0g which stopped the apt-process. Removing it, > dpkg --configure -a and again > apt-get --fix-broken --show-upgraded dist-upgrade brought everything back to normal. Nothing else. By the way: libpam0g was automatically reinstalled with the new version. Finally: MANY, MANY THANKS TO ALL OF YOU! KEEP ON GOING. YOU ALWAYS MAKE A GREAT "JOB" WITH THE DEBIAN DISTRIBUTION! QUIT SILENT ... BUT POWERFUL. Sincerely Steffen Haas = Debian GNU/Linux: When code matters more than comercials. = -- Sent through GMX FreeMail - http://www.gmx.net
