At 07:06 PM 1/4/97 -0500, Daniel S. Barclay wrote: > >> From: Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> I've been living off the unstable tree for almost a year. Back when the >> version was 0.95r6 or something like that. >> >> I really haven't had any problems to speak about, and certainly >> not all the problems that people are writing about when upgrading >> 1.1 -> 1.2. >> >> One reason may be that I just don't have as many packages installed, >> but I was wondering if anybody had any other explainations as to why many >> small incremental upgrades over the months seems to be more stable (in the >> sense of installations not breaking) than making larger leaps from >> point release to point release. >> >> I'd really like to hear that my observation is indeed false, since >> upgradability is, of course, one of our major claims for Debian. > > >I wonder: Was the Debian 1.2 release ever tested? That is, did anyone >at Debian try installing it from scratch?
Yes, I installed the whole system from scratch, however, Bruce did make a few changes to the disks after I had used them so that may be what is catching a few people. I also had to use the ftp install method, and if I remember correctly an ftp binary was included on the disks. Shaya -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
