Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i'd really like to use xfree86 4.0; i might as well just upgrade the whole > system to woody.
AFAIK, xfree86 isn't already official part of woody, but there are the phase2 debs... > can someone please tell me how to use apt-get to change my potato to a > woody? if it makes a difference, my sources.list file is: > > deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r0 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-3 > (20000814)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main > deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r0 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-2 > (20000814)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main > deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r0 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-1 > (20000814)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main Since there are no Woody CDs, you can comment these cdrom lines out. > deb ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/ potato main non-free contrib > deb-src ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/ potato main non-free contrib > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib > non-free deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US > potato/non-US main contrib non-free Oh, you don't have the security and proposed updates enabled, the entrys (for potato) are: deb http://security.debian.org/ potato/updates main contrib deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian dists/potato-proposed-updates/ > thanks; i really appreciate it! Just change the "potato" in the ftp:// and fttp:// entries in your sources.list to "woody". Do it via dselect (Update, Select) or via 'apt-get update' and 'apt-get dist-upgrade'. > ps- i downloaded and compiled my own kernel 2.4.0. will that screw things > up? I don't think so, but I can't say it for sure. moritz -- /* Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * http://hp9001.fh-bielefeld.de/~moritz/ * PGP-Key available, encrypted Mail is welcome. */
