On Tue, 7 Jan 1997, Chris R. Martin wrote:
>
> I have a pretty stable 1.1 installation, and I would like to upgrade to
> 1.2. What would be the BEST way to do this? I don't have a 1.2 CD (yet)
> and I have only a slow (28.8) net connection. Therefore, I'll probably be
> upgrading package by package...
>
> So which packages should I upgrade first? I need to keep this system
> running as much as possible!
>
Start with the base packages, then work your way through the rest of what
you need. It will take 2 to 3 hours to download the base files as they
are about 6 meg in total. I would advise having all these files before you
do the upgrade. Take a look at DoList and base.list in the upgrades
directory. This is a script that will drive dpkg with the base.list and do
the upgrade for you.
>From this point you can download packages, one at a time, if necessary,
and install them using dpkg -i <path-to-package>package_*.deb.
This is how I built my first Debian system, and I can tell you that it's
quite a bit of work (and waiting on downloads). If you have enough disk
space you will probably have smother results if you download the whole
archive first (and get the Packages files) you will be able to use dselect
to do your upgrade.
Or, you could buy a CD from myself, or I-Connect, or one of the other CD-R
toasters, and not dedicate any of your precious hard disk space ;-)
Luck,
Dwarf
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