On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 10:42, Stephan Sauerburger wrote: > Oh man.. I just spent about 4 days installing packages and reconfiguring > it from scratch, including rolling a new kernel. Not having to completely > redo all of it again from a Woody CD would be most preferred. Is there > any sort of Potato-to-Woody (2.2 to 3.0) automated update procedure implemented? > > > > On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 08:57:43AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 22:22:26 -0500 > >Stephan Sauerburger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> I just installed Debian from a Deb 2.2 Potato CD after a hard drive > >> crash which occurred about a month ago. I used the same CD I did for > >> the previous install, and as far as I can tell, the same installation > >> procedure - > > > >Welcome back to the world, Rip. :) > > > >While you were sleeping Woody became the stable distribution (it's been > >stable since last July). > > > >In fact, a revision has been released and Woodyr1 is now stable. > > > >Potato is still in the Debian archives, but many are expecting support > >to be discontinued in a few months. Since you're installing to a new > >hard drive from scratch anyway, this might be a good time to move up to > >Woodyr1. > > > >A 2.2 kernel is installed by default; for a 2.4 kernel just type "bf24" > >at the initial prompt when you boot the installation CD. > > > >Kevin > > > > > >-- > >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Just make sure /etc/apt/sources.list has stable sources and do a dselect update && apt-get install apt dpkg && apt-get -u dist-upgrade now enjoy your new woody system. Ahh the beauty of Debian and apt. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
