I want to try upgrading to testing (woody). First I went to the debian site and plucked the following sources directly from them:
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main non-free Then I did the following: apt-get update apt-get --download-only dist-upgrade 176 packages upgraded, 41 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 92.3MB of archives. After unpacking 65.3MB will be used. I'm good with that so I say yes... I am seeing the following problems: Err http://http.us.debian.org testing/main libc6 2.2.2-4 400 Bad Request Err http://http.us.debian.org testing/main libncurses5 5.2.20010318-1 Bad header line Err http://http.us.debian.org testing/main libldap2 2.0.7-5 404 Not Found Err http://http.us.debian.org testing/main lilo 1:21.7-3 404 Not Found Err http://http.us.debian.org testing/main binutils 2.11.90.0.5-1 404 Not Found Thing about this one is a friend of mine did the exact same upgrade not 10 minutes before me and it worked flawlessly. Ideas? How much risk is there to go ahead and update with that many files not found? Then at the end of the download it spits out a ton of this: Fetched 85.8MB in 33m22s (42.9kB/s) Failed to fetch http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/glibc/libc6_2.2.2-4_i386.deb 400 Bad Request Failed to fetch http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/n/ncurses/libncurses5_5.2.20010318-1_i386.deb Bad header line Failed to fetch http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/b/bash/bash_2.05-3_i386.deb Size mismatch Failed to fetch http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/u/util-linux/bsdutils_2.11b-4_i386.deb Size mismatch See those "Size mismatch"? What the heck is going on? Is this one of those, it's too early to expect a successful dist-upgrade? Or could there be something else going on that I don't know about that I'm doing wrong? Bill
