On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 08:36:24AM -0500, Daniel Ramaley wrote: > > When Xorg came out, Sarge was almost ready to become the stable release. > Sarge is what i'm running, but i've not had any problems with my older > hardware. If you want Xorg, try switching to the testing distribution. > To do that, edit /etc/apt/sources.list and every time you see "stable" > or "sarge" change it to "testing". Then run aptitude, hit "u" then "U" > and then "g" and "g" again.
In my experience upgrading from one distro to another is a BIG change. Be prepared for the upgrade process to take a long time, and be irreversible. My upgrade from woody to sarge was difficult -- but I had made sure of a fully running bootable backup on another partition, and that made it easy to recover when I ran out of disk space in my upgrading partition halfway through the upgrade. Once I had enough space, I repeated the upgrade and it worked flawlessy. The machine I was running was a server and internet interface for a home lan. Despite the first upgrade failure, none of the users experienced any disruption (except for brief pauses while I rebooted to test whether my backup partitions would boot properly). I haven't encountered another distribution that upgraded that innocuously! Afterward we exchanged jokes about Windows upgrades. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
