> Another question related to installing Debian on my brother's machine
> tomorrow. Can we partially install 1.2 and upgrade to 1.3 over the net?
>
> By partially install, I mean install all the required and important
> packages from the 1.2 CD-ROM. Then get networking going. From there
> do a complete upgrade from 1.2 to 1.3. Anyone foresee any problems with
> doing this?
>
> Or should we do a complete installation of 1.2 before we upgrade?
Don't do complete installation!!!!
Make network work, download base packages, and before using dselect don't
forget to do the following "by hand":
dpkg --clear-avail
dpkg -i ldso_*.deb
dpkg -i libc5_*.deb
dpkg -i dpkg_*.deb dpkg-ftp_*.deb
dpkg --purge --force-depends texbin # this one in case you already
installed texbin package
Also, do not try to install everything in one pass, do it be small
portions.
Good luck.
Alex Y.
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> Bob
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