On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 11:40:16AM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: > *- On 29 Dec, Robert L. Harris wrote about "slink --> potatoe?" > > > > Ok, > > I have a box on a 33.6K modem I want to up grade to potatoe, either before > > or after it goes final. Is therre an apt-get command I can run before I > > go to bed that will do it cleanly for me? > > > > Edit /etc/apt/sources.list to point to potato (no e unless you are Dan > Quayle, =) ). > > apt-get update > apt-get -d dist-upgrade (notice the -d option) ... > The -d option tells apt-get to only download and not install the > packages. With a modem it is possible that you will loose the > connection and some files not get completely downloaded. Once all the
The -d option does not seem to be required. apt-get will automatically detect that it has not downloaded all the packages and asks you if you want to continue downloading when you restart it. With my 28k8 modem, it took nearly 24 hours to download 195MB of updates. This depends on how chock-a-block you made your system. I have most of the development stuff installed, because that is an interest area for me. > apt-get dist-upgrade (without the -d option) You have to sit by during this process and hand-hold apt-get through the process because it stops to ask you questions. This is somewhat annoying. Also, there are two or three changes to config files you must make manually, depending on the packages you have installed (modules, svgatext and one other I've forgotten to update, obviously). -- William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada Niklaus Wirth has lamented that, whereas Europeans pronounce his name correctly (Ni-klows Virt), Americans invariably mangle it into (Nick-les Worth). Which is to say that Europeans call him by name, but Americans call him by value. 12:54pm up 1 day, 13:05, 8 users, load average: 1.00, 1.14, 1.14
