On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 08:58:35AM -0600, David Bell wrote: | On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 08:44, Liam Black wrote: | > I'm currently running potato 2.2.19, and looking to upgrade to Woody. Is | > there a simplistic way to do this with apt / dpkg? I'm a newbie, and have | > been spending my time learning about the desktop much moreso than tackling | > the meat of the system... but that's what I'm attempting to do, now. | > | > So if anybody can help me with this, it'd be appreciated. | | Absolutely. :) | | Change all references to 'stable' in /etc/apt/sources.list to 'testing' | and run apt-get update && apt-get -u dist-upgrade. You're now running | Woody. :)
After you do that, apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.17-386 (or whichever flavor suits your hardware) and update your boot loader to load it. Some hints : you'll need to use an initrd, add 'ide-cdrom' and 'ide-floppy' to /etc/modules and add 'apm=on' to the kernel command line. If you want more details on those, either RTFM (archives, google, etc) and/or ask, but include some particulars of your system (eg, what bootloader do you use?, where is /boot?). -D -- For society, it's probably a good thing that engineers value function over appearance. For example, you wouldn't want engineers to build nuclear power plants that only _look_ like they would keep all the radiation inside. (Scott Adams - The Dilbert principle)