If you don't have apt-get then I'd use dselect which will ask which source to download from so you can enter your new urls which will change /etc/apt/source.list automatically. If I remember correctly dselect will automatically select all packages reflected in your new source list and upgrade. hth Dean
Matthew Dalton wrote: > > Dean wrote: > > > > Hi Peter: > > I'd try removing them. try: > > apt-get remove (package) > > I'm not sure that Debian 2.0 has apt-get. > > Read > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html > Section 3.3 deals with upgrading from Debian 2.0. > > To be honest though, I'd wipe the 2.0 installation and start over. If > the hardware hasn't been changed since 1997, its bound to be better > supported by now. > > > Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: > > > > I really don't want to install from scratch, as I only have five > > > days available for this attempt, and it took two weeks to get the GUI > > > part working last time. That black and white console screen starts > > > getting old after a while... > > Your hardware (what is it?) is more likely to be supported now, so maybe > you won't need the 5 days. > 2.2 is a decent step up from 2.0, though. It's likely that all of your > packages would get upgraded. You might spend 5 days just downloading > > Matthew
