On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 12:14:34PM +0200, Danie Roux wrote: > On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 10:11:02AM +0000, Aurelio Turco wrote: > > 5: Install again from scratch, to upgrade to a new release. > > Do this only if your installed release is too far behind the > > release you wish to upgrade to. > > This should not be necessary, because of Debian's great dependencies > system.
You should never have to install from scratch, certainly, but upgrading directly from, say, 2.0 to 2.2 isn't necessarily guaranteed to be a one-step operation. There are sometimes brief instructions in the release notes about this sort of thing if anybody found time to work them out. If all else fails, old releases are archived on archive.debian.org and its mirrors, so if you find yourself with a buzz (1.1) machine that you need to upgrade you can always pull each release in turn from there. It might take a reboot or two as you work through compatible kernels. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
