I want to upgrade my system from Potato to Woody. I am confused by the instructions. In particular, the instructions about the changes that I need to make to /etc/apt/sources.list
The six non-comment lines in my current sources are: deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r5 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20020116)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r5 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-2 (20020116)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r5 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-3 (20020116)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free The CDs are burnt from images that I downloaded using jigdo. I used apt-cdrom to get them into sources.list The other three lines were placed in sources.list as comments by the initial install. I uncommented them, but did not change any of the character strings on them. First question is something of an aside: Why are the CDs said to be "unstable"? More serious question: I know I need some lines containing "testing" or "woody", but should I remove the lines containing "stable"? or should a add new lines and keep the lines containing "stable"? Should I keep, or remove, the lines concerning the CDs? And is there a correct way to remove, or do I just use emacs? Also, I attempted to install jigdo from a .deb. There were unsatisfied dependencies, so jigdo is in there in a suspended state. Should I remove it first? How? I think I must remove it because all my attempts to upgrade so far have aborted with a complaint about jigdo being uninstallable. But maybe the real problem is that I haven't shown apt-get the way to find the more recent versions of installed packages. And last question: If I should keep all the lines that I now have, and add lines for testing, is the order of the lines important? Should the "testing" lines go before or after the "stable" lines? Please help. Thanks. -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
